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CDC grant funds vaccine-support tool

A $1 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will fund a decision-support toolkit being developed by the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) to increase vaccine acceptance and vaccination rates.

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Pitt is launching an Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences

“The new Office of Sustainability will accelerate the transdisciplinary opportunities across the health sciences,” said Dean Maureen Lichtveld.

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Africa intensifies battle against mpox as ‘alarming’ outbreaks continue

The global outbreak helped bring new attention to mpox and led to a boom in research, Jean Nachega associate professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Epidemiology says, but almost all of it came in Europe and North America.