2022 Public health stories #35

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

2022 Public health stories #34

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 34 of 2022. I. “Countries with large populations have the potential to significantly distort how we see the severity of the pandemic around the world. Considering the pandemic performance of the US, China, India and Ethiopia, we assess how these population outliers affect […]

2022 Public health stories #33

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 33 of 2022. I. Imagining India at 100: Where Health is recognised as being critical for human capital from Dr Swaminathan II. “We’re all connected, and progress anywhere improving health and saving lives is progress we can all celebrate.” Public Health Progress, […]

2022 Public health stories #32

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 32 of 2022. I. Three Possible Futures of the Monkeypox Epidemic from WIRED II. Finally, an answer to the question: AI — what is it good for? from Vox III. So excited to be a small part of this huge leap. @CDCgov […]

2022 Public health stories #31

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 31 of 2022. I. Dr Frieden writes about How We Can Fight Monkeypox Effectively II. A Look at the Economic Effects of the Pandemic for Children III. “In 2021, Abbott—the global health care company known for its diagnostic tests—decided to start the […]

2022 Public health stories #30

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 30 of 2022. I. How public health works – and why it sometimes doesn’t II. Should Alexa diagnose Alzheimer’s?: Legal and ethical issues with at-home consumer devices III. A pilot framework to assess a country’s past performance at detecting and responding to […]

2022 Public health stories #29

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 29 of 2022. I. The pandemic variants and how the boiling frog metaphor applies. Dr Topol makes a compelling case for the next steps “Variant-proof “universal” coronavirus vaccines and nasal vaccines to block transmission and infection are our way to turn off […]

2022 Public health stories #28

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 28 of 2022. I. How depoliticizing the US health response will save lives (COVID isn’t over) II. What are the Implications of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade for Racial Disparities? III. 25 million kids missed routine vaccinations because of COVID Disclaimer: […]

2022 Public health stories #27

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 27 of 2022. I. II. “We find that the United States is alone among peer nations in the number of child firearm deaths. In no other similarly large or wealthy country are firearm deaths in the top 4 causes of mortality let […]

2022 Public health stories #26

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 26 of 2022. I. Maternal mortality in the United States, highest of all 38 OECD countries, increased during the pandemic and now. All-Cause Maternal Mortality in the US Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic from JAMA Network Open II. “Deaths due to […]