Transcript Presentation - Shoreline Community College

Maxine Hayes, MD, MPH
State Health Officer
Washington State Department of Health
Shoreline Community College
April 6, 2011
What is the relationship
between global changes
and local public health
concerns and services in
Washington State?
Travel time from North
America to anywhere in
the world is less than
the incubation period
for nearly all infectious
diseases
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Bugs rule!
People, politics, policies
Commerce and trade
Natural and man made disasters
Ecological changes due to the environment
Agricultural practices
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Movement of disease vectors
Emerging/reemerging infectious disease
Antimicrobial resistance
Vaccine preventable disease outbreaks
Food supply chain
Peanut
Butter and
Pistachios
Surveillance: the linchpin
to conquering emerging,
reemerging threats
Policy decisions in a
variety of areas
worldwide
Commit to
practicing public
health without
borders
Change thinking from
“think global/act local”
to “think and act local
and global” - “GloCal”
It’s a small
world after all!