Make Public-Health Officials Stay in Their Lane Again
Public-health officials, however, needn’t get near debates about campus anti-Semitism. They are charged with stopping literal ...
CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington
The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs ...
Trump administration offers public health workers $25,000 buyout
The Department of Health and Human Services is offering $25,000 buyouts to some 80,000 employees as part of the Trump ...
NIH director nominee outlines his goals to improve public health
A relatively sedate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for National Institutes of ...
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With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles
The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between ...
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Exploring Careers in Public Health
Public health is a dynamic and rewarding field dedicated to improving the health and well-being of communities and ...
Where did U.S. public health go wrong?
The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles ...
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When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ...
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COVID's legacy: Public health's diminished power
COVID-19 put public health officials on the front lines against a once-in-a-lifetime threat. It's left them with less power ...
Commentary: Childhood poverty is a public health emergency. We need to treat it that way.
Commentary: Poor nutrition, environmental pollution and inadequate medical care lead to chronic health problems, ...
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Why the state's public health leader says he needs to re-build trust after the COVID pandemic
Dr. Robert Goldstein, commissioner of the state's Department of Public Health, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to reflect on the COVID pandemic and how his office is working to build trust in public ...