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Teaching Public Health
The need to train public health professionals with knowledge and skills to address complex problems is greater than ever. There are more schools and programs of public health than ever with growing numbers of faculty coming from an ever-broader range of...
Class Trumps Race as a Cause of Health Disparities
When we think about disparities in health status, it is common to view these inequities in terms of race. For example, we often look at infant mortality as an issue of race. In 2016, for every 1,000 babies born to black mothers in the United States, 11.4 died...
Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
By the time of publication of the first edition of Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy in 1996, the possibility of national health care reform – which had not long before seemed so bright – had severely dimmed. The Clinton Administration’s proposed...
The New Health Economy, the Private Sector, and The Road to Universal Health Coverage
Understanding the roles of the private sector as part of the roadmap to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) at the country level will be indispensable to helping most countries achieve UHC by 2030. A new book edited by Jeffrey L. Sturchio (Rabin Martin), Ilona...
Ellen N. La Motte and The Backwash of War: The “Lost” Author of a “Lost” Classic
My fascination with The Backwash of War, by Ellen N. La Motte, began twenty-five years ago, when I was a graduate student tracing the untold history of American antiwar writing for what would become my first book, War No More. I knew immediately that this long...
Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases is a collection of stories about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of bacterial and parasitic diseases that affect the world’s 1.5 billion poorest people...
A Call to Vaccinate
My latest book from the Johns Hopkins University Press was written as a literary form of crisis communications. Across parts of the United States and Europe we’ve now seen a reversal of some of the great public health gains achieved over the last two decades...
Building Healthy Communities through Medical-Religious Partnerships
Why should medical organizations look to faith communities as partners for health programs? Haven’t religious institutions lost their influence in America? These are questions I am sometimes asked when people learn that much of my work is devoted to building...
Pandemics, Pills, and Politics
En-Capsulating Security: Could a Pill Strengthen National Security? Hardly a year goes by of late in which a new infectious disease outbreak does not capture the world’s fears and imagination – from HIV/AIDS, SARS and pandemic flu, through to Ebola and Zika...
Writing through Heart Disease with Carolyn Thomas
A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease: my blog-turned-book! By Carolyn Thomas Part Two: Writing the Blog-Turned-Book After two copies of my book contract were duly signed and returned to JHUP, I bought myself a new laptop to replace my ancient MacBook...
