Mesa County Public Health was the agency that first investigated last year’s E. coli outbreak linked with raw onions in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, which sickened at least 104 people, killing one, ...

So, the health department conducted something called an online “sentiment search,” which gauges how certain words are perceived on social media. The tool found that many people in Oklahoma City didn’t ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the Health Department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against Covid slipping after an initially ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed significant gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure at the local, state, and federal levels. In particular, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat of disease outbreaks looms, and both the respiratory virus season and ...

Revenue diversification may be a synergistic strategy for transforming public health, yet few national or trend data are available. This study quantified and identified patterns in revenue ...

Federal health officials said they are cutting $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for state and local public health departments — money that was largely used for COVID-19 testing, virus research ...

The newly expanded Health and Human Services Fund will provide direct support to community members and local nonprofits, ...

Local and state health departments said they were caught off-guard by an abrupt end to federal grants that started during the Covid-19 pandemic, a move that introduced "uncertainty and chaos," one ...

State and local public health departments are bracing themselves as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulls back about $11.4 billion in grants that were allocated to state and ...