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Long before the dangers of global warming were clear to us, public health researchers were pursuing protective measures for our most basic and valuable environmental resources and linking that work to concerns about health equity and environmental justice.
If an operation doesn't go well and a patient is readmitted, should the hospital get paid again? These are the questions Edward Norton asks in his research as he evaluates US health care’s major shift to pay-for-performance models.
Daniel Eisenberg has spent years researching adolescent and young-adult mental health and sees public health as a leader in improving mental health for entire populations. Now, he and his team are building new tools that prevent and treat mental illnesses and will cost a lot less than individual therapy.
With a legal background and a PhD in health policy, Rebecca Haffajee explores the relationship between the law and health, focusing on policy issues related to behavioral health, such as the opioid epidemic and marijuana legalization.
Tianna Morgan takes on difficult advocacy conversations because policy is central to everyone who works in public health, from environmental quality to communicable disease to food access. “Fundamentally,” she says, “policy is an intervention.”
Anton Avanceña grew up in the Philippines, where he witnessed the effects of limited resources on health care outcomes. Today, he is learning to use modeling and simulation techniques to create better public policy.