Welcome  to  public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. April  9  is  World  Health  Day, a  time  to  commemorate  the  work  of the  World  Health  Organization, the  health  agency  of  the  United  Nations. This  year's  theme  is  international  health  security. According  to  Marguerite  Papa  Ano, a  University  of  Minnesota  epidemiologist, routine  health  issues  such  as malnutrition  continue  to  be  the  major  threats  to global  health  are  major  health  threats continue  to  be  the  day  in,  day  out. Unfortunately,  routine  but  devastating diseases  that  affect  so  many  people, malnutrition  probably  is  at  the  top  of  the  list. There  are  close  to  1  billion  people  in the  world  that  are  malnourished. Malaria  remains  one  of  the  top  killers  in  the  world. Diarrheal  disease  from  unclean  water  or poor  sanitation,  vaccine  preventable  diseases. Diseases  like  measles  and diphtheria  and  whooping  cough  and  polio. Papa  adds  that  addressing  such  threats  to global  health  needs  to  be  balanced  by dealing  with  emerging  threats  such  as  bio  terrorism. There  are  many  types  of  threats.  How  we  address  them? A  absolutely  do  everything  we  can  on the  prevention  side  in  terms  of  vaccinations, implementing  interventions  for  malaria, diarrheal  disease,  cleaning  up  water, putting  in  sanitation  systems. But  then  obviously  emergency  preparedness is  absolutely  key  on the  bioterrorism  and  agro  terrorism  side with  another  public  health  moment. I'm  John  Finnegan.