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Quarterly Opinion
November 2024 Joshua M. Sharfstein, Michelle L. Bedoya,
In a series of decisions, the US Supreme Court has severely constrained the authority of federal agencies to regulate in the interest of public… More
June 2024 Sandro Galea,
It is well established that politics, and the mechanisms of political action, have an important impact on the health of populations. The very… More
May 2024 Nahid Bhadelia, Laura White, Lawrence O. Gostin,
The next decade will be a critical window to prevent measles from regaining a foothold. More
Quarterly Article
May 2024 Cason Schmit, Brian Larson, Thomas Tanabe, Mahin Ramezani, Qi Zheng, Hye-Chung Kum,
Context: Recent legislative privacy efforts have not included special provisions for public health data use. Although past studies documented support… More
January 2024 Marianne Udow-Phillips, Samantha Iovan, Peter D. Jacobson,
The imbalance in US health spending between public health and medical care is no secret. For example, of the more than $3.8 trillion in US health… More
December 2023 Sandro Galea, George J. Annas,
We are likely still too close to the Covid pandemic, too enmeshed in its ongoing risks, to fully evaluate what we did right and what we did wrong these past years, and how we can best plan for future pandemics. More
August 2023 Harold A. Pollack, Nate Glasser, Selwyn Rogers, Jr.,
Not long ago, some of us were asked to attend a meeting at our institution on the topic of development and employment opportunities for young people… More
June 2023 Paula M. Lantz,
The sunsetting of emergency declarations and orders, while signaling a decrease in the turmoil caused by COVID-19, does not mean the pandemic is over in the United States or globally. More
May 2023 Michael S. Sparer, Lawrence D. Brown,
The politics of public health requires a closer look at the role played by county commissioners, mayors, and other local elected officials. We need a political strategy to persuade these officials that their constituents will benefit from a better public health system. More
May 2023 Sandro Galea,
At some level, we failed at prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. If our metric for success was preventing viral spread, illness, or death, then a pandemic in which the United States was hit harder than any other large country showed us that we fell substantially shorter in prevention than we might have hoped. With this as a motivating impulse, I suggest that we ask two questions: what caused the consequences of COVID-19 to be so devastating in the US? And, understanding that, what would be an intellectual and practical agenda for prevention going forward? More
