Columbus Public Health

Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts was removed from the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. She was one of 17 people who were dismissed Monday from the committee by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Columbus Public Health terminated 11 infectious disease staffers after the Trump administration eliminated $11.4 billion in grants nationwide for infectious disease funding.

Columbus Public Health recently lost about half of a $6 million grant for COVID-19 enhanced operations, leading CPH to let go of 11 infectious disease investigators.

Five years after COVID-19 started spreading in Ohio, Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner of Columbus Public Health, is reflecting on the community's response.

Whitehall City Schools has identified students who need to be tested after possible exposure.

The outbreak began in June with the first recorded measles case in Columbus in over 20 years.

As Columbus contemplates becoming the first city in Ohio to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes, data is starting to come in from areas that have implemented bans themselves, including the entire county of Canada where researchers are finding a reduction in smoking.

Black people had the second highest overdose death rate in 2020. In Franklin County drug deaths among blacks were up 55%.

Columbus Public Health will host a community discussion on Saturday to share perspectives on gun violence prevention.

The federal government anticipates sending more vaccines to states like Ohio sometime in August.