It’s a familiar pandemic story: In September 2020, Angela McLean and John Edmunds found themselves sitting in the same Zoom meeting, listening to a discussion they didn’t like. At some point during ...

Medical students at the University of Pennsylvania can take a class that teaches major public health issues, and prepares them for patient advocacy. Dr. Mario DeMarco, family physician and associate ...

It’s a strange, reflexive tic: Faced with bad-faith criticism from malign actors, we shrink back, saying, “Oh, it’s not you.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Florida’s medical community came out in force on Friday at a Department of Health workshop in Panama City on vaccine ...

In that role, one of the big things I learned was that while those of us in medicine and public health think about the medical and ...

A classic warning in public health goes like this: “A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other health enhancing activities may actually be ...

The weekly public radio show hosted by Laurel Bristow is a collaboration with Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health December 9, 2025––WABE, Atlanta’s choice for NPR and PBS, today […] ...

Following historian and philosopher Hanna Arendt, there is the belief that the public should assert their needs and interests in scientific endeavors. 1 But, before the public can weigh in, someone ...

The conference is the BMA’s policy forum for public health doctors. You don’t need to be a BMA member to attend. The theme for the BMA’s 2026 public health medicine conference is “Rebuilding Public ...