2023 Public health stories #21

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 21 of 2023. I. Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory from US Surgeon General II. III. ‘What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then’ Harvard Medical School 2023 Class Day keynote speaker Sanjay Gupta shares insights from 30 years […]

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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 […]

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2023 Public health stories #19

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 19 of 2023. I. “The declaration that the COVID-19 public health emergency is over doesn’t mean the end of its impact, or of the virus itself. What comes now?” From Imagining Life After the COVID Public Health Emergency Ends II. “Not all […]

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2023 Public health stories #18

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 18 of 2023. I. A roadmap and commitment to make #COVID19 the last pandemic. II. III. Dr Sandro Galea revisits the question of why health in this blog post. “Health is, at core, a means to an end. That end is, as I […]

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2023 Public health stories #17

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 17 of 2023. I. II. III. AI is currently a hot topic, and it’s common to ponder about its impact on healthcare (Disclaimer: This sentence was recommended by an AI browser plugin) The Medical Futurist’s blog has a good summary of Top […]

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2023 Public health stories #16

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 16 of 2023. I. The two-part series titled “Time to build back equal in global health leadership” explores the status of women’s leadership in global health and some actionable recommendations for gender transformative policies “Our research sought to explain why if the […]

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2023 Public health stories #15

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 15 of 2023. I. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its Public Health Data Strategy: Public Health Data Goals and 2-Year Milestones this month and also a 2022 Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) Snapshot. Online visual summary available here. II. […]

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2023 Public health stories #14

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 14 of 2023. I. As we commemorated #worldhealthday and celebrated #publichealthweek, WHO released a timeline of its history and key public health milestones. A must-read for any public health enthusiast. Read from here. It’s incredible how far we have come. But still […]

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2023 Public health stories #13

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 13 of 2023. I. This Lancet series on “Commercial Determinants of Health” is a compelling compilation of frameworks and recommendations around this topic. II. This thread on Twitter about the dire life expectancy situation in the US is worth reading and if […]

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