Public Health
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Cross-sector partnerships are essential to advancing adolescent health, particularly in school-based settings. The intersection between public health, education, and clinical health is vital to the delivery of integrated services.
In the United States, it is estimated...
Hartford, CONNECTICUT — Over the past two years of living with COVID-19, many churches have had to think in new ways. Congregations across the country are experimenting with practices such as virtual worship and Bible study or masking and social distancing — even as others go “back to normal.”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Effective immediately, children 0-4 years old and pregnant women traveling from countries affected by the measles outbreak will NOT be allowed to enter American Samoa. This is according to an updated announcement signed this week, December 4th, by Public Health director...



![Miss Samoa 2019, Fonoifafo Seumanu, who is also the newly crowned Miss Pacific Islands, has joined the country’s effort to combat the measles epidemic. A nurse by profession, Miss Samoa is part of a group of medical professionals who are carrying out a mass door-to-door vaccination campaign in Samoa. [photo: Miss Samoa Pageant FB] Fonoifafo Seumanu administering am MMR shot to a child](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/miss_pac_is_fono.jpg?itok=BnKGz3AF)