In 2016, Keyes and Galea issued 9 foundational principles of population health science and invited further deliberations by specialists to advance the field. This article presents 7 foundational principles of population health policy whose intersection with health care, public health, preventive medicine, and now population health, presents unique challenges. These principles are in response to...

Free-living amoebae of the genus Naegleria have been recognized as etiologic agents of amoebic encephalitis, keratitis, otitis, lung lesions and other skin infections mainly in immuno-compromised individuals. Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningo-encephalitis (PAM), a rapidly fatal disease of the central nervous system. The disease is generally acquired while swimm...