As the federal government makes major changes to food and vaccine policy, uncertainty swirls in Washington over public health funding to states, and neighboring South Carolina is battling a surging measles outbreak, the board of the Georgia Department of Public Health has decided it doesn’t need to meet this month.
“As there is no official business pending for the Georgia Board of Public Health, no meeting is scheduled at this time,” state Department of Public Health spokesperson Nancy Nydam Shirek told Healthbeat on Friday.
The nine-member board last met in September. It unexpectedly cancelled a November meeting “due to unforeseen scheduling issues,” according to a note on its website.
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