The Courts v. Public Health. An essay for the Milbank blog with Joshua Auerbach here. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/opinions/the-courts-vs-public-health/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Courts%20vs%20Public%20Health&utm_content=The%20Courts%20vs%20Public%20Health+CID_0a5f02f6635f214500961afaeeee8681&utm_source=Email%20Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Opinion
Putting the public health back in public health emergency preparedness. A new assessment from Dr. Nicole Lurie and me in The Milbank Quarterly. Open Access. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.12615
Remembering Congressman Elijah E. Cummings. For Public Health on Call, I speak with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings about the origins of her husband's amazing advocacy and accomplishments for health. https://johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/577-congressman-elijah-e-cummings-a-force-for-health
Wow. WaPo digs into why the South has the lowest credit scores in the country (adding to individual consumers' borrowing costs, freezing then out of credit at all). The answer: Medical debt. Because the South didn't expand Medicaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/
The Case of SCOTUS vs. Public Health Agencies. A conversation with Judge David S. Tatel on the Supreme Court's new "major questions doctrine." via Public Health on Call. http://bit.ly/3XzzRsY
Important new study on diagnostic errors in the Emergency Department -- spoiler alert, there are a lot of them, and new systems and resources are needed to prevent them. Great work by Dr. David Newman-Toker and the other authors. https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/diagnostic-errors-emergency/research
Thelma Thiel, the Liver Lady, talks with @drjoshs about her tragic personal journey that led her on a lifelong mission to raise awareness about the liver and liver disease, including with the NFL ! You can listen to the podcast here: https://johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/546-the-liver-lady
On Monday November 14, Dr Francis Collins and I presented a national plan for Hepatitis C elimination at AASLD’s Liver meeting. Read more about it here. https://www.healio.com/news/gastroenterology/20221115/we-need-your-help-aasld-support-outreach-key-to-success-of-hcv-elimination-program #HCV #HepatitisC #infectiousdisase #healthequity @drjoshs JagChhatwal RebekahGee JohnWard NoelleTerrault
Just posted -- a proposal for a global equity model for @CMSinnovates
with @anaeze_offodile Donna Kinzer Jason Gibbons and Samantha Murrell
http://bit.ly/3fZq1AJ
This is a great report from Pew Charitable Trusts on barriers set up by states that keep people with opioid use disorder from lifesaving treatments. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/data-visualizations/2022/state-opioid-treatment-program-regulations-put-evidence-based-care-out-of-reach-for-many
I work at the White House on science issues. A big part of my work this year has been developing a national program for Hepatitis C elimination with Dr Francis Collins. You can read more about it here https://rollcall.com/tag/francis-collins/
Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Comments are my own, even about the Orioles.