Updates from the Field: Spring 2019, Issue 28
Global Health Protection in Action
![labe-women_925x550 Two women from Guinea carrying children on their backs and balancing laundry dishes on their heads. Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201220101103im_/https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/spring-2019/images/labe-women_925x550.jpg)
Two women from Guinea carrying children on their backs and balancing laundry dishes on their heads.
Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International
Stories of Regional Collaboration
The Division of Global Health Protection works to protect Americans and people worldwide from public health threats by working with partners to build capacity, advance research, and respond in times of crisis. In this issue, learn how we have connected people and systems within different regions—Africa, the Americas, the Middle East/Europe, and Asia—and around the globe. To print this issue, please use Updates from the Field Issue 28 – Print Version pdf icon[44MB, 36 Pages, Print Only].
AFRICA
- West Africa Comes Together to Confront Monkeypox
- Zambia at the Forefront on Data for Health
- Tracking Lassa Fever Across Three Countries
- Southern Africa Leads the Regional Approach to Public Health
AMERICAS
- Venezuela Crisis Presents Complex Global Health Security Challenges
- Taming a Triple Threat Fungus
- Colombia’s NPHI Keeps the Public Healthy
MIDDLE EAST/EUROPE
- Ensuring Data Quality in the Midst of Insecurity and Uncertainty
- Georgia: A Neutral Hub Brings Disease Detectives Together
- Do You Speak Data?
ASIA
- Disease Detectives Working Toward Polio Eradication
- Keeping Safe around Highly Dangerous Pathogens and Toxins
- Responding to a Rohingya Refugee Crisis
GLOBAL
Read more global health stories that highlight our work:
![senegal-milling Tabaski Gaye (l) and Arame Gaye are members of the Khar Yalla Gueye, a women's group operating a small-scale grain milling operation in Senegal. Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201220101103im_/https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/spring-2019/images/senegal-milling_430x525.jpg)
Tabaski Gaye (l) and Arame Gaye are members of the Khar Yalla Gueye, a women's group operating a small-scale grain milling operation in Senegal. Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International
![An elderly woman in Vietnam pouring water with one hand and using the other to help a boy and a girl wash their hands. Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201220101103im_/https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/spring-2019/images/vietnam_hands_925x530.jpg)
An elderly woman in Vietnam pouring water with one hand and using the other to help a boy and a girl wash their hands. Photo: Scott McPherson, RTI International