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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

Samples from the AFIP were instrumental in solving many public health challenges, like sequencing the genome of the 1918 influenza virus. In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). During the transition, the DoD asked the U.S.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In preparing for that interview, I looked at the websites for all of the city's Advisory Neighborhood Commssions (ANCs are block and neighborhood specific councils that weigh in on matters before DC government) and just a handful had transportation/public space committees. And public health.