2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #27

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 27 of 2021. I. “We are at a now-or-never moment to improve global readiness for disease threats. We cannot know the character or timing of the threats ahead, but we can be certain that such threats are inevitable. The urgent need to […]

2021 Public Health Stories #26

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 26 of 2021. I. “When we look back on this moment, it will likely be through the lens of scientific excellence, inequities, the erosion of trust in institutions, and how it all could have been fundamentally worse. It is also the case […]

2021 Public Health Stories #25

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 25 of 2021. I. “As vaccination is extended to children and if booster shots become necessary for adults, this shift to local providers will be imperative. Messaging is crucial but not sufficient. Emphasizing hesitancy misses the point. Planners should expand access by […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #24

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 24 of 2021. I. “We have the tools to do it—we just need the will and leadership and especially the public to demand that the devastation of COVID-19 is something that shouldn’t have happened and that we never want to have happen […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #23

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 23 of 2021. I. She is the epitome of everything a public health professional should aspire to be – humble, rooted in science, thoughtful, and an empathetic leader. Must read from Dr Anne Schuchat – What I Learned in 33 years at […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #22

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 22 of 2021. I. ” Even as the world lionizes health care workers as heroes, we fail to keep them safe.” A call for action from Resolve to Save Lives on protecting health care workers. Its a rich, insightful report on an […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #21

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 21 of 2021. I. “….a treaty needs to be crafted so that it can open the doors for governments, including heads of state, to be actively involved in strengthening health security. Sustained political will at the highest levels of government will be […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #20

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 20 of 2021. I. “Digital contact tracing is not a perfect intervention, given the risks to privacy, personal data, and false positive or false negative characterization of contact status. However, as in a Swiss cheese model, imperfect interventions can work together to […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #19

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 19 of 2021. I. There is more discussions around COVID variants now and how it is scary. But MIT Technology lays out some clear arguments about why the panic maybe unwarranted. Read about it here. II. A very salient paper on “Redefining […]

2021 PUBLIC HEALTH STORIES #18

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 18 of 2021. I. A scathing editorial from the Lancet on India’s COVID emergency. Read it from here. II. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on Covid-19, acknowledged the shift in experts’ thinking.“People were getting confused and thinking you’re […]