Sept. 23, 2026 - The Role of Public Health Laboratories in National Health Safety are the topics discussed by James Chithalen, the deputy director of the Wadsworth Center, New York Sate Department of Health in the 36th Leonard Ford Lectureship at Minnesota State Mankato. KMSU's Karen Wright spoke with Chithalen about the work of public health role in local and global health security, and bridging the gap between clinical medicine and population-based disease prevention. Topics ranged from the handling of the COVID epidemic, debunking vaccination myths, continuing disease outbreaks and the challenge for scientists to communicate better to the public.
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