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IFT Staff

Toni Tarver

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    Public health is a science concerned with protecting and improving the health of populations, whether in a neighborhood or an entire country. From a conventional viewpoint, public health focuses on promoting health and stopping disease—especially preventable ones such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. According to America’s largest public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health professionals work to limit health disparity by detecting, re…

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    About the Author

    Toni Tarver, Senior Technical Editor, writes the “Inside Academia” column and writes and edits other scientific and technical material for the magazine.
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