Health Communication
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Go See the Doc: The Battle to Take Back Primary Care
Kayla Flewelling and Utibe Effiong
Your primary care provider is in a unique position to help you stay healthy, in large part by identifying potential disease threats and helping you prevent their onset. So what is keeping so many Americans out of their primary care doctor’s exam rooms? Read more
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A COVID-19 Vaccine Needs the Public's Trust--And It's Risky to Cut Corners on Clinical Trials, as Russia Is
Abram L. Wagner
On August 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a coronavirus vaccine developed in the country has been registered for use. Why is this news being condemned broadly by scientists around the world? Read more
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Stacking Protections against Disease: What Do Driving a Car and Occupational Health Have to Do with the Coronavirus?
Aurora Le
Preventing the spread of disease is essential for our health. So is having a steady income. To get us back to work safely, occupational health experts are helping us “stack” protective measures—use multiple layers of safeguards—to truly protect workers, clients, patients, and visitors from the potential harms of environmental exposures on the job and in other spaces we frequent. Read more
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Changing the Narrative around a Changing Climate
Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, BS ’11, MPH ’13, DrPH
Do fear-inducing representations of climate change actually motivate people to take action? As the influence of popular media grows, communicators across the sciences have an opportunity and a responsibility to shift climate conversations from messages of doom to narratives of hope. Read more
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One Family, Three Disciplines: An Intergenerational Conversation on Public Health
Michael Boehnke, Betsy Foxman, and Kevin Foxman Boehnke
We asked a family of public health researchers about big-picture changes in the field, how they decide which questions to pursue, and what they make of specialization in the sciences. Their conversation both lifts up and itself embodies the interdisciplinary nature of public health. Read more
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Why Are Sexually Transmitted Infections on the Uptick and What Can We Do?
Laura Power, MPH ’15
Rates of infection for diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have been surprisingly high in recent years. How can we get better at preventing and treating STIs, and what other information do we need to protect ourselves and our communities? Read more
