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Senior Projects Spring 2018

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2018

Infectious Diseases

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Could The Global Health Secuirty Agenda Actually Protect Americans From Emerging Diseases?, Shannon Taylor Dixon Jan 2018

Could The Global Health Secuirty Agenda Actually Protect Americans From Emerging Diseases?, Shannon Taylor Dixon

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This senior project aims to challenge the traditional thinking of public health. My inspiration from this topic simply comes from my interest in bettering global health for all people. With an ever shifting political and social environment, this paper strives to seek the most successful strategies in combating infectious diseases. By using three prominent and global infectious diseases, Ebola, Zika and Influenza, this paper analyzes the failures and successes of international support and response teams. This paper also uses the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) as a foundation to analyze and support the claim that successful global health interventions are …