Why science?
Part two of a three-part series on universities, science, and the promotion of health as our social purpose.
The Healthiest Goldfish
Health is not healthcare. I write about the foundational forces that shape health.
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What are universities for?
Part one of a three-part series on universities, science, and the promotion of health as our social purpose.
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How America’s founding ideas have made the world healthier
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The responsibility of idea stewards
What we owe the ideas we inherit
A purple public health: Disagreement as a starting point
Studying and practicing public health amid real values divides
Health as infrastructure, not intervention
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When public health succeeds and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
Thinking about how we communicate public health better
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Rethinking autonomy in a field that serves populations
Ideas that crowd out alternatives
Why the most prominent ideas are not necessarily the best.