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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1999;281:501-502.

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WASHINGTON—The time is ripe to begin an era of collaboration between those who seek to improve public health and those who provide health care to individual patients, said Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at a National Health Council briefing here last month. The result will benefit not only physicians and public health practitioners, he said, but, more importantly, patients and the community in general.

Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH (Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

"Now is the time for the two groups to pull together to enhance each other's performance," said Koplan, who was named director (succeeding David Satcher, MD, who is now Surgeon General of the United States) in October 1998.

The National Health Council is a nonprofit organization to which more than 100 voluntary health agencies, professional associations, industry groups, and other . . . [Full Text of this Article]