public health

Every student in America should be required to take a class called, "What Do We Know, and How Do We Know It?" Perhaps if we learned from an early age how we know the things we claim to know, fewer Americans would fall for ridiculous conspiracy the

Excited to report that a new study in Health Affairs provides us with another metric that we have previously known and repeatedly been shown in the literature (and

When some of the public hears about vaccines today, they may think of Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent links to autism or Jenny McCarthy’s use of her Hollywood megaphone to polarize the issue as well as encourage the spread of an anti-

Our public health system has a very bad habit of fighting the last war. This has resulted in a real-life version of American Horror Story.

Human sovereignty over the environment is a double-edged sword. For instance, on the one hand, advances in science and technology have caused deaths from infectious diseases to plummet around the world.

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Dr. Gilbert Ross in Science 2.0, March 20, 2015

At The Hill, American Council on Science and Health Senior Director of Medicine and Public Health Dr.

Consumer use of social media connects and informs communities about everything from local celebrations to impending natural d

Dr. Gilbert Ross in The Star-Ledger, April 10, 2014