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![<p>The CDC’s Emergency Operations Center amid the Ebola crisis in 2014.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
What Is the FDA’s Role in Public Health?
![<p>The FDA operates laboratories across the country to inspect food, medical, tobacco, and other products.</p>]()
![<p>Gerson Antonio Zaldivar, a migrant from Honduras, poses in front of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky, Nick Graetz, Joseph L. Dieleman and Samantha Kiernan![<p>Marcelo Louzada holds a photo of his brother Valdemar Louzada, thirty-eight, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Valdemar suffered from obesity and died from COVID-19 in May 2020.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky, Serena Tohme and Samantha Kiernan![<p>Health workers demonstrate outside the hotel where the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has its headquarters to count the election votes, in La Paz, on October 22, 2019.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky, Tara Templin and Simon Wigley![<p>A health worker checks the temperature of a woman as part of the Ebola screening upon entering the General Hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on July 15, 2019. </p>]()
By Terrence Mullan![<p>A technician inspects anti-cancer drugs in vials at a lab of a pharmaceutical company in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer </p>]()
By Yanzhong Huang![<p>A man wearing a health mask walks out of a voting booth in Xinbei, Taiwan. </p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky![<p>Four boys look ahead as one flies a kite over houses in the Petare slum in Caracas, Venezuela. </p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky![<p>A man comforts his fiancée, a patient at a breast cancer clinic in Tehran, Iran. With little access to preventive and primary care, working-age people in poorer nations are more likely to develop and receive late diagnoses for cancers and other NCDs.</p>]()
By Thomas J. Bollyky and Amanda Shendruk![NCD_ACC.jpg]()
Conference Call- By Thomas J. Bollyky and Danielle Renwick
- Task Force Report
The Emerging Global Health Crisis
