As public health professionals, we want each human being to realize their unique potential and to fulfill the miracle of their existence. Our focus is population-scale prevention and intervention. Private…
Climate changes are toxic to human health. Mental healthcare is structured as a crisis-response system that fails to address the full spectrum of mental healthcare needs. Both of these problems…
A dirty little secret about government is that even when politicians can’t get rid of a program that they don’t like, they can often do a lot to make its…
We need to strengthen and build robust health data utilities that can link and connect public health and clinical data systems. It makes sense to build these data utilities as public-private…
New software makes it easier to report personalized health-study data back to participants, helping bridge a data equity gap. Health research depends on participant involvement, but participants are rarely given…
Similar to many African countries, South Africa—the country where I work as a BU associate professor in global health—reported its first COVID-19 case on March 5, 2020, imported by a…