The Healthiest Goldfish
Sandro Galea, Salma Abdalla, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Nason MaaniHealth is not healthcare. I write about the foundational forces that shape health.
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A Purple Public Health: When everything becomes a public health crisis
This piece was co-written by Dr Salma Abdalla and is also cross-posted here.
A quick search of public health mentions in the media over the past few decades will show that at some point, almost every social problem in the country has been...
Building momentum for public health
On June 12, 2026, SpaceX, the spaceflight, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications company, went public, opening at $150 per share, and, briefly, valuing at nearly two trillion dollars on its first day of trading, in the largest IPO...
The limits of over-reliance on the math
This essay is the second in a two-part series about the role of counting in public health. Last week’s essay explored the role of metrics in strategic decision-making and the values that determine what we count and why. Today, I would like...
On the politics of measurement
Lord Kelvin, the influential British mathematician (and namesake of the Kelvin scale, which he developed), once said:
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you c...
An argument for intentional moderation
I would like to talk about moderation. Most of us, if asked our view on moderation, would likely say it is something of which we could use more in our public life. Yet, when we look around, we often see this sentiment “more honored in the b...
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Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, author, and the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St Louis
Professor at Washington University. Physician by training, population health scientist in practice. Skeptical of simple answers.
Physician and population health scientist at the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St Louis. I write about my personal experiences, health, society, and the ordinary moments through which larger forces become visible.
Senior Lecturer, Inequalities and Global Health Policy, U of Edinburgh. Senior Harkness Fellow. I write about and research how social and commercial forces shape our health, policy, and ideas
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