Dr. Meg Schaeffer, EdD, MPH, MPA is an infectious disease epidemiologist and National Public Health advisor at SAS. Dr. Schaeffer spent 15 years working in government on outbreaks from botulism to H1N1 and now COVID-19. She is a former professor, published author, triathlete, and community advocate. Her focus at SAS is on Public Health Modernization within government.
Your zip code can have just as much of an impact on your health as your DNA. In a recent podcast episode with Joyanna Gamble-George, MHA, PhD, and Karriem Watson, DHS, MS, MPH, the above statement didn’t just stop us in our track – it reshaped the entire conversation. As
The cold of winter and holiday gatherings push people indoors, causing a surge in influenza hospitalizations. Years of above-normal temperatures in southern states bring a species of mosquito that carries malaria to the US. Declining childhood immunization rates threaten to allow previously eradicated diseases like measles to become endemic again.
