Greetings from MPHI President,
Dr. Jay H. Glasser
MPHI in a Nutshell
MPHI is a non-profit organization that is “Promoting Populations Health through Voluntary Health Profession Alliances in Education, Applied Research and Community Programs”. MPHI strives to include the multiple health professions, academic and research institutions; student groups (our future manpower and leadership) Government, Business, Private, and related persons interested in Health, both curative and preventive.
Dr. Roy Schwarz established MPHI following a talk in 1993 concerning the costly gulf between medicine and public health and the need to integrate the fields to meet current population health challenges. Subsequently, in concert with the American Medical Association and The American Public Health Association, MPHI was formally launched with a national Congress in 1996. Organizations and individuals here today were among the original participants and contributors.
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MARKERS in
MILESTONES in POPULATION HEALTH –
ERADICATION OF DISEASE:
“THE HOLY GRAIL OF DISEASE PREVENTION”
Rinderpest and the Context –
Comments of Dr. James Steele, DVM MPH
The Washington Post headline of May 26, 2011 points to a landmark in Human and Animal Health. “Rinderpest or ‘cattle plague,’ becomes the second disease to be eradicated.” Second to Small Pox, this represents as the article goes on to recount, a disease that has hobbled herding, and food supply with all its implications since the first report in ancient Chinese manuscripts.
Through the millennium man, animals and plants have lived in a dynamic balance with marked swings of habitat, times of excess and times of depriva-
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