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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Opinion
April 2025 Nahid Bhadelia, Laura White, Lawrence O. Gostin,
In 2024, we warned about the potential for measles resurgence in the United States, due to declining vaccination rates and growing religious and… More
April 2025 Joshua M. Sharfstein,
It was during the Presidency of George W. Bush in 2006 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asserted that “the foundation of HHS… More
April 2025 Kushal T. Kadakia, Rebecca E. Giglio, Dave A. Chokshi,
Public health in America faces a paradox: its mandate encompasses the population as a whole, yet the infrastructure of public health—the teams of… More
February 2025 David Rosner,
In 2022, President Trump held a news conference focused on the COVID epidemic then taking the lives of one of every 300 Americans. During it he… More
January 2025 Paul T. Kim,
Turnover in control of the executive branch inevitably means change in the agenda of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates medical… More
January 2025 Harold A. Pollack, Jason Lerner, S. Rebecca Neusteter,
Just before 1:30 a.m., March 26, 2024, America experienced a historic transportation tragedy. The cargo ship Dali lost power, and brought down… More
December 2024 Lawrence O. Gostin, Alexandra Finch, Adi Radhakrishnan, Eric A. Friedman,
In every major global health milestone in our lifetimes, the United States has been at the forefront—from smallpox eradication in 1980 and the… More
December 2024 Sandro Galea,
The recent US federal election has occasioned a substantial amount of reflection on the part of a broad range of sectors. Public health is no… More
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
