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Our opinion page features commentary from some of the best minds currently working to improve the public’s health on issues related to population health and health policy.
February 2025 Sara Rosenbaum,
The Trump Administration is defending the ACA’s free preventive benefit guarantee before the Supreme Court as part of its effort to exercise whole-of-government control over US policy, says Sara Rosenbaum in this Opinion. More
February 2025 Kristi Martin, Meena Seshamani,
Addressing persistent and widespread challenges in any large organization necessitates implementation of policies and programs in ways that are… 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
February 2025 Patricia Hong, Ezekiel J. Emanuel,
Artificial intelligence technology has opened a new avenue of opportunity to augment the mental health workforce and increase access to care. 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 Jennifer Beam Dowd, Neil Mehta,
Despite our best public health efforts (and a zealous diet industry), the rising tide of obesity continues unabated. New classes of diabetes… 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 Paula M. Lantz,
Since the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion law in the United States has been a complex maze of… 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
