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A Nobel Peace Prize for Dr. Denis Mukwege brings to the fore the upstream factors that create conditions for sexual violence, such as trafficking in minerals essential to the electronic devices we use every day.
Uniform, high-input farms, the hallmark of modern intensive agriculture, have produced an abundance of food unimaginable at the start of the last century. But a healthy diet remains out of reach for billions worldwide.
Much of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste in our oceans is made up of microplastics. They are now turning up everywhere, and we know virtually nothing about their impact on human health.
In 1954, the CEOs of every major US tobacco company gathered in New York City to plan a coordinated response to public opinion on tobacco. The portrait of who smokes today has changed since then, but the tobacco marketplace will morph.
As a student-athlete, Michigan Public Health doctoral student Traci Carson developed the Female Athlete Triad—a relationship of menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability (with or without an eating disorder), and decreased bone mineral density that strikes female athletes across high-impact sports. In her own words, Traci explains the Triad and her research into prevention.
Wherever precision health tools help us understand why people are getting sick or what makes them more likely to get sick, public health practitioners can create and advocate for interventions that can keep people out of the doctor's office in the first place.