2022 Public health stories #35

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 35 of 2022.

I.

What I Learned From the World’s Last Smallpox Patient by Dr Celine Gounder

II.

“Public health will need more than just grassroots efforts. All 325,000 voices must organize and dramatically increase the dollars, and human efforts, spent on public health lobbying to compete with the health sector giants. Only by harnessing this power can we put an end to the perpetual déjà vu and permanently increase funding, and power, for public health.”

Read Public Health Needs Stronger Lobbying

III.

How life expectancy in the United States “fell off a cliff”

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