Exposing Hidden Threats to Human Health
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The Birthplace of Public Health
The country that taught the world how to prevent disease may be forgetting one of its most important lessons.
I am in England this week for a workshop on lead poisoning. It is not my first visit. During my sabbatical in 2023, I spent six m...
A Letter I Almost Didn’t Send
Dear Rachel,
I’ve rewritten this note several times. Each version sounded either too alarmed or too cautious. Too much like a scientist. Or too much like a father worried about his grandson.
I guess that is what happens when you spend thi...
The World We Have Made
David Rosner and Jerry Markowitz taught generations of historians, physicians, and public health scientists to look beyond individual choices and ask a harder question: What kind of world have we built?
That question lies at the heart of t...
How Canada Keeps Toxic Pesticides on the Market
The following essay was published on May 22 as an OpEd in The Hill Times, a widely read independent newspaper in Ottawa that covers Parliament, federal politics, and public policy. It comes at a moment when Canada is beginning to rethink ho...
An Unwitting Bargain
The harms accumulated slowly enough that we mistook them for progress.
One of the strangest features of modern life is that many chronic diseases seem to be rising together.
Obesity, infertility, kidney disease, metabolic disorders, devel...
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Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, is a preventive medicine physician and professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He studies how toxic chemicals impact human health. His research showed that no level of lead is safe.
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