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Giving Choice Back to People with Disabilities
Many of us take for granted the basic human right to direct our own daily lives: deciding for ourselves when to get up in the morning or go to bed at night, when to take a shower, and when and what to...
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Improving Health Care in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is not a healthy city. Compared to the rest of the U.S., the D.C. metropolitan area has higher than average rates of heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and infant mortality—as well as...
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Halting Childhood Obesity in Arkansas
If today's childhood obesity epidemic continues unabated, we will be faced with a daunting prospect: raising the first generation of American youth with a shorter life expectancy than their parents....
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Defeating One of Humanity's Oldest Killers
Doctors often refer to people who have never been infected with a malaria parasite as “malaria naïve.” That also would be an apt term for the world in general in 2001 when Burness Communications began...
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Connecting Urban Sprawl and Public Health
America is suffering from an obesity epidemic. Just a few years ago, that statement would have raised eyebrows. But recently, obesity has taken center stage in discussions about public health. In...
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Campaigning Against Infectious Disease
Vaccination ranks as the single most important public health achievement of the 20th century. In the industrialized world, diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough – once causes of great fear,...
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Looking beyond healthcare – the social factors that affect health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's issue brief on early childhood experiences and health. We know that education is important, that a better job and more income can improve our lives, and that...
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Conversations in Development: Improving Health in Kenya's Urban Slums
Poverty, poor health and overcrowding are some of the many challenges facing communities in Kenya's urban slums, or informal settlements. Jane Otai knows these issues firsthand.read more
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Ebola Insights
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH, a Burness Client), on November 5 2014, featured informative, gripping, tragic, and inspirational testimony from...
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