2023 Public health stories #20

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 20 of 2023.

I.

This is such an arresting visual story from the NY Times about lasting lung damages from COVID

“The Times analyzed hundreds of millions of data points from the patients’ scans to reconstruct their lungs in 3-D. The resulting visualization offers a vivid, visceral picture of damage that can linger years after infection and irrevocably alter everyday life.”

View it from here.

II.

A new toolkit created by our team at @ResolveTSL guides countries on how to establish and scale up effective programs for people living with both HIV and high blood pressure. https://t.co/2Aa5CFjPOk pic.twitter.com/JVYL3HHjWv

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) May 17, 2023

III.

Solid advice from Dr Brian Castrucci of De Beaumont Foundation to the Columbia SPH graduates
Advice for 2023 Grads: Think Big. Think Policy.

“Big thinking. Policy solutions. Unlikely partnerships.”

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