Epidemiology & Outbreaks
The number of deaths in a population during a specific time period is called this rate.
What is the mortality rate?
The first U.S. case of COVID-19 was confirmed in this year.
What is 2020?
Medicaid expansion under this law was debated during the Trump years.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This UN agency leads international efforts to combat hunger and improve nutrition.
What is the World Food Programme (WFP)?
This U.S. government agency oversees workplace safety standards.
What is OSHA?
This term describes the first identified case of a disease outbreak.
What is the index case?
This agency, sometimes criticized under the Trump administration, led national COVID-19 guidance.
What is the CDC?
The Trump administration attempted to ban this type of health insurance coverage, sometimes called “Obamacare.”
What are ACA marketplace plans?
The deadliest outbreak of Ebola occurred between 2014–2016 in this West African country.
What is Guinea?
This term refers to the spread of false or misleading information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is an infodemic (or misinformation/disinformation)?
The “study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events” is the definition of this field.
What is epidemiology?
In April 2020, President Trump announced the U.S. would halt funding to this international health body.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This U.S. health agency, targeted for funding cuts under Trump, leads medical research.
What is the NIH?
Climate change has worsened the spread of this mosquito-borne disease worldwide.
What is dengue (or malaria)?
his ethical principle in research requires that participants give voluntary, informed agreement before taking part.
What is informed consent?
This measure combines incidence with the length of time people are observed.
What are person-years?
The Trump administration launched this program to accelerate vaccine development.
What is Operation Warp Speed?
In 2020, the Supreme Court heard a case that could have overturned this major health reform law.
What is the ACA (Affordable Care Act)?
In 2021, the WHO approved the first vaccine against this parasitic disease.
What is malaria?
This U.S. city’s water crisis, beginning in 2014, became a major public health scandal due to lead contamination.
What is Flint, Michigan?
The 1854 Broad Street Pump cholera outbreak investigation was led by this “father of epidemiology.”
Who is John Snow?
These drugs, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, were promoted by some politicians as COVID-19 treatments despite lack of evidence.
What are unproven/ineffective drugs?
The Trump administration reinstated and expanded this policy restricting U.S. funding to foreign NGOs that provide abortion services.
What is the Mexico City Policy (or Global Gag Rule)?
Trump pulled the U.S. out of this climate agreement in 2017, which has major health implications.
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
In 2018, the Trump administration banned the CDC from using certain words in budget documents, including this word central to health disparities.
What is “vulnerable”?