The poet Mark Strand died Saturday at age 80, of liposarcoma. A MacArthur genius, Pulitzer Prize winner and former US poet laureate, Strand wrote austere poems that explore the self and sing of alienation. He’s perhaps best known for the poem, “Keeping Things Whole.” In a…
When Katrina’s floodwaters inundated New Orleans in 2005, the odds seemed stacked against the poor. By hosting its annual meeting here, APHA gave the public health community an opportunity to gauge the recovery process, and think about the preparedness of all of our…
If you were there, you felt the electricity. 6 U.S. Surgeons General lit up the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s great hall yesterday afternoon, talking candidly about their successes, failures and the nation’s health needs. Unburdened by political constraints, 5…
New Orleans’ population just notched up by 13,000 extremely smart, committed public health professionals, researchers, advocates, students and assorted hangers-on like myself. All are in town for the American Public Health Association’s 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition…
We're honored that Judith Wasserheit, the new chair of the University of Washington Department of Global Health, talked to GHN about global health leadership. A professor of global health, medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington and a leader in STD/HIV…
By R. Sterling Haring, MPH After 13 unsuccessful years, 2014 saw the passage of a law mandating booster seat usage in Florida. While many factors played a role in this public health victory, a few key elements to this year’s approach that helped give the bill the…
Global Health NOW’s Jackie Frank spoke with Laurie David yesterday before a screening of her film Fed Up at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Best known for producing An Inconvenient Truth, the Academy Award-winning film about global warming, David’s latest…
One of the great things about editing Global Health NOW is hearing from our smart and engaged readers. Here’s a great “stop-and-think” letter to the editor that we received yesterday:
Available, accessible and affordable vaccines are vital for reducing the prevalent causes of pneumonia, a preventable disease that is the No. 1 killer worldwide of kids under 5, reported Keith Klugman who leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts against…
Zaher Sahloul, a Chicago-based critical care physician who presides over the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), didn’t rely on words or statistics to convince a rapt audience at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that his homeland is in the grips of…
