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TIKRIT, Iraq— Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, visited Tikrit, Iraq, on March 22. She spent the day visiting fellow physicians at the Tikrit Teaching Hospital and the tuberculosis clinic in Tikrit.
Gerberding, on her second visit to Iraq, arrives for the United and Healthy conference sponsored by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Her visit also coincides with World TB Day.
"It's really important for doctors to be able to come together and brief each other on the latest developments in science," Gerberding said of the upcoming conference. "We have a lot of opportunities to not only understand what some of the emerging health issues are but also to understand how we could collaborate together."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, is the primary U.S. federal facility for conducting and supporting health activities in the U.S.
"The CDC is very committed to supporting the Health Ministry in Iraq and being a very good partner," she said.
| Date Taken: | 03.22.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 03.24.2008 15:54 |
| Story ID: | 17688 |
| Location: | TIKRIT, IQ |
| Web Views: | 130 |
| Downloads: | 118 |
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