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"Robert M. Pestronk, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said he hoped the new climate data tools would help municipal officials plan for climate change. "Local health officials are on the front lines of preparing for and addressing the health effects of climate change - from reduced air quality to extreme weather to climate-sensitive infectious disease like West Nile virus and Lyme disease," he said. The website, Mr. Pestronk said, "will provide valuable data to guide and support local health departments in their efforts to ensure the health and safety of people in their communities.""

Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "

A key figure in the shift from public health of communicable diseases to lifestyle-related life expectancy, but with a socialist commitment.

a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."

"An intangible goal, which requires building human relationships, is to meet elders' emotional, cognitive, and even spiritual needs. To that end, Paul Raia in 1989 developed "habilitation therapy"-a communication technique based on the neuropathology of Alzheimer's. "The ability to feel, perceive, respond to, and evoke emotion is there in the brain until very near the end," he explains. The therapy aims at creating positive emotion and sustaining it "in whoever people become as they move through the stages of the disease." If a patient wants to visit her deceased mother, the caregiver does not "reorient reality" by asserting the truth but responds to the underlying feeling of sadness and loss by saying: "I hear your mother was a wonderful lady, let's talk about her," and taking out a photo of, say, a day at the beach mother and child shared, and talking about it...."

"Beginning in 1946, U.S. Public Health Service investigators in Guatemala, funded by the National Institutes of Health, engaged in immoral, unethical, and illegal experiments infecting victims with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases, without the victims' informed consent. The U.S. has left the victims untreated and uncompensated to the present day."