public health

Please Don’t Dream About Impressing Keith Urban

What Do We Glamorize in 2013 That We Shouldn’t?

American popular culture has long glamorized the unhealthy and unsavory. We go to the movies and watch attractive people puffing cigarettes or mafiosos strutting around in sharkskin suits killing off their enemies. We turn on our radios and hear a rap song that celebrates the violent excess of Scarface—or a pop song about dancing with Molly. In advance of the Zócalo/Getty Center event “Why Do We Need Glamour?” we asked several thinkers the following question: What do we glamorize in 2013 that we shouldn’t?

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We’re Winning in Afghanistan (At Least With Vaccines)

U.S.-Funded Public Health Programs Make the World Safer For All of Us. Why Aren’t They More Integrated Into Our National Security Strategy?

by Charles Kenny |

Forget the Affordable Care Act—by far the biggest impact of the Obama Administration on global health has been in funding incredibly cheap, effective health interventions overseas at a fraction of …

Can the Free Market Cure Asthma?

A Group in Fresno Looks to Make Money While Helping Kids Breathe

by Lisa Margonelli |

Is there a profit to be found in reducing children’s asthma attacks? A diverse team of public health advocates, asthma care providers, financiers, and foundations has set up a pilot …

Our Landslides Are Bigger Than Yours

What the Entire World Can Learn From California’s Penchant for Disaster—And Ability to Recover From It

by Susan W. Kieffer |

When I was a graduate student at Caltech in the 1960s, my boyfriend and I loved to take a spin up the spectacular, cliff-hanging California Highway 39 that ascends in …

Lessons From a Brief Stint In Porn

My Job Was Entering Tags and Names Into a Database. It Taught Me a Few Things About Regulating a Strange Business.

by Heather Smith |

I got the job from a friend who couldn’t handle the sight of so many naked women. “I thought,” she said, “that my lady parts were unique and special.” She …

Public Health Scholar Gilbert Ojeda

I May Go Chicago On You

Gilbert Ojeda directs the California Program on Access to Care at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Before participating in a panel on the effects of immigration reform on …


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