What is “public health” and why does it matter?
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided painful, if illuminating, answers to those questions over the past 14 months. At its most basic, public health’s most critical charge is to prevent sickness and illness by keeping people healthy in the first place. With nearly 600,000 Americans dead and millions more infected—and people of color and lower-income people bearing disproportionate impact on both counts—our public health system has clearly failed.
The above is an excerpt of a piece originally published in The Hill.
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