Clinical Environmental Stewardship Amidst the COVID-19 Era: Ethical Considerations and Reformative Solutions

Healthcare workers situation amid COVID-19 response in Afghanistan

Arash Nemat, Christos Tsagkaris, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Shubhika Jain, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Muhammad Bilal, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Shoaib Ahmad, Hashim Talib Hashim

Evaluating the Impact of Remdesivir on COVID-19 Patient Outcomes: An Inpatient County Hospital Analysis

Christina Chopra, Liliana Filipowska, Sharon Wang

The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill: Inclusion of the Medicaid Reentry Act Is Critical to Justice-Involved Individuals

Evaluating Communication of Public Health Policy and Guidelines to Physicians and Clinic Staff During a Pandemic

Tyson Schwab, MD, MS, Scott Black, MD, Quinn Cannon, MD, Leslie Forbush, DNP, Sarah Daly, DO

Analysis of Transmission Rates in Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients in a Community Hospital Setting

Casey A. Hughes, Thomas Boeding, Sanjay Desai, Katherine Westbrook, Constance Christian, Akash Patel, Ti Hoang, Raul Magadia

Community Health Assessment of Muslim Women at an East Harlem Islamic Center

Farhana Begum, Brittany Dodson, and Anitha Srinivasan

Telling the Story: Capacity-Building in the Asylum Network

Jennifer McQuaid, PhD

An Invisible Public Health Crisis: The Forced Normalization of Intersex People

David Kirichenko

Social Determinants of Health in Children With Epilepsy; It’s Not All About Socioeconomic Status

Wilson, E., Sheng, H., Mulkey, N., Garg, A., Camayd-Muñoz, C., and Douglass, L.

An Invisible Public Health Crisis: The Forced Normalization of Intersex People

Candice Carpenter, MD, MBA, EdM, Khaya Makhubu, MBA, Lee Moche, MBA, MS

Attitudes and Knowledge Towards Immunization in Tuzla Canton Population

Indira Efendić, Ilma Ahmetagić, Nedim Srabović, Adnan Mujanović, Suad Sivić,
Raza Smajić, Saša Mihajlović, Eldina Mahmuzić, Midhat Omerović, Elmira Begić, Azra Šadić,
Erna Ahmetspahić, Irma Efendić

2018 Attica Wildfires: The Intersection of Governance Failures and Climate Change

Georgia Christakis, MD

Community Health Assessment of Muslim Women at an East Harlem Islamic Center

Farhana Begum, Brittany Dodson, and Anitha Srinivasan

Youth Trauma Is A Silent Epidemic That Must Be Stopped

Dr. Rob Carpenter

The “Who” and the “How” When Working with Tribal Communities

Michele Sky Lee, Arden Day, Carolyn Camplain, Natalie Papini, Melinda Smith, Kate Compton-Gore, and Julia Gardner

When Safeguards Hinder Access: Medicaid and Bilateral Tubal Ligations

Kaitlyn Arbour, MS, Christine Petrin, MPH

Disability, Depression, and Dogs During Covid-19: Is There a Relationship?

Liza D. Molina, ScD, MPH

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Addressing Homelessness in Healthcare

Daniel Park, Pranay Bonagiri, and Nicole Lee

Public Trust in Public Health: The Crisis of Confidence and its Consequences

Eskira Kahsay

Evaluation of Physician Attitudes, Perceptions, and Current Practice regarding SBIRT as a clinical tool in the Chicagoland Primary Care setting

Kyle Wieschhaus, MS4, Sahand Ghodrati1, MS4, Brendan Martin2, PhD, Jessica McIntyre, MD, FAAFP

Is “Enough” Really Enough? How Protected Are Our Most Vulnerable Workers—Those That Support Our Country’s Economy and Infrastructure?

Shelton Lo and David C. Christiani

Assessing How We Assess Decision-Making Capacity: Informed Consent Is Necessary Before Each Capacity Assessment

Thomas John Pisano, Jacob Charles Shamash

Psychological and Behavioral Impacts of Breast Cancer on Survivors

Kevin Davoud

Mifepristone’s REMS Criteria: Dangerous During COVID-19 and Beyond

Claudia Flores, Kristyn Brandi, Chloe Phillips

Healthcare workers situation amid COVID-19 response in Afghanistan

Arash Nemat, Christos Tsagkaris, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Shubhika Jain, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Muhammad Bilal, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Shoaib Ahmad, Hashim Talib Hashim

COVID-19 as a Catalyst: How the Coronavirus Pandemic can Increase Accessibility in the U.S. Healthcare System

Amrita Krishnan

Social protection during COVID-19 crisis in India

Narayana Prasad, Edmond Fernandes, Shrey Lakhotia, Delma Coelho, Sukanya Prasad

Why do International Organizations Fail in Responding to Epidemics? An Analysis of State Incentives Through the Lens of International Organizations

Samantha Strelzer

Anti-Vaxxers, Wealth, and Individualism: How Self-Perception May Explain the Immunization Divide

Amrita Krishnan

Displacement and Gentrification Across the U.S.: The Pillage of Cultural Identity and Community

El’gin Avila, Ans Irfan, Wayne Swinsone

It’s Time to Combat Stubborn Insurance Companies: Bariatric Patients Deserve to Live

Anna Bogursky

The Ethics of Crisis

Justice Gordon Goodman

The Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Community Health Center and Emergency Department Usage in Massachusetts

Anna Maloney

Analysis of Obese Hypertensive Women

Valerie L. Fernandez

Recognizing Social Media-Related Depression and Anxiety

Shaan Kamal, Mohammed H. Malik, Philip Blumenshine

Taking The Next Step: Leveraging Behavioral Economics for Health Exchange Re-Enrollees

Swathi Raman

Big Tech and COVID-19: Risks Associated with Engaging Our Digital First Responders

Cassandra Skapek

The Case Against Monetary Behavioral Incentives in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccination

Ana Santos Rutschman, Timothy L. Wiemken

COVID-19 Contagion among Communities with Limited English Proficiency: Lesson from Volunteerism

Falah N. Rashoka, MS, CPH

"Co-Benefits” as a Lens Through Which COVID-19 Building Upgrades Can Advance Environmental Sustainability, Climate Mitigation and Adaptation, and Social Equity

Adele Houghton

Irisin and the Possible Impact on a Cytokin Storm in Athletes with COVID-19: A Case Report

Rafael S. Knack, Renata S. Knack, Taliê Hanada

Community-level Factors Associated with COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality in Queens, New York City

Harlem Gunness

Identification of “Hot Spots” of COVID-19 in the United States (January 2020-January 2021)

Jessica Liu, SV Subramanian, and Alan C. Geller

Serving Refugees in a Pandemic: Insights from Yezidis in the Midwest

Falah Rashoka, Marc A. Garcia, Megan S Kelley

The Role of Public Health in the Rule of Law: The Cautionary Tale of Title 42 Expulsions

Sarah Diaz, Malachy Schrobilgen

Harvard Ventures: The Bottom Line Podcast

Virginia Tiernan, Georgia Messinger, Jessica DeVilla

A Medical Student’s Guide for Maximizing Personal Protective Equipment during Clinical Rotations in a COVID-19 World

Asim S. Ghani, Lark A. Steafo, Angeli E. Torres, Iltefat H. Hamzavi, MD

Ending the Opioid Crisis in Five Years

Kelly O'Connor

Public Health’s Call to the People: Media Misinformation Matters

Kelila Kahane, Jenna Sherman, Samantha Patella

Insidious Vectors of Disease

Candice Carpenter, MD, MBA, EdM

Thinking Beyond Purpose-Built Communities

Kate S. Meyer

Migrant Worker Safety, Occupational Health Equity, and Labor Trafficking

Jaya Prakash, Inkyu Kim, Timothy B. Erickson, Hanni Stoklosa

The Case for Universal Basic Income as a Tool for Racial Justice

Sana Farooqui

Analysis of COVID-19 Awareness Among Georgia Private High School Students

Aqil A. Merchant

Closing the Supply Gap: How a Student Clinic Organization Adapted Their Role During COVID-19 Clinical Suspension to Support Frontline Providers

Alexandra Woodbridge, Sophia Foroushani, Taylor Hopper, Andre Perez-Chaumont, Dan Frechtling, Brett Phillips, Lisa Ngo, John Dywer

Structural Colorism: Illuminating the Shadow of Structural Racism and Its Malcontents

Candice Carpenter, MD, MBA, EdM

Placing Youth at the Forefront of Tackling Non-Communicable Diseases

Stuti Chakraborty, Sheeba Sagar, and Poorvaprabha Patil

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Highlighted a Severe Healthcare Staffing Shortage

Haran Ratna

The Impacts of Colonization on the Inequities of Smoking During Pregnancy in Aotearoa

Logan Williams

One Size Does Not Fit All: The Case of Patients with Autism in Emergency Room Settings

Laura Kirsch

Allergies and Asthma in a Warming World: A Threat to Public Health

Matthew R. Norris, Leonard Bielory

An Economic Analysis of Refugee Health Policy and a Structural Comparison

Naveed A Rahman

The Ethical and Medical Implications of Prenatal and Preimplantation Screening

Meenakshi Reddy

Maternal and Child Health in the United States and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Scott Podolsky

COVID-19 and the Code: Revisiting the Philippine Experience

Kenneth Jim Joseph Jimeno

The Effect of State Mandate Timing on COVID-19 Incidence Rates

Sahil Amin, Dhiraj Peddu, Gaurav Majmudar, Paul Weber

Globalization, Urbanization and COVID-19: Implications for a World All Too Connected

Simisola Johnson

A Small Allocation of the COVID-19 Vaccine Yields Critical Benefits to One-third of Americans: Prioritize School Staff and Childcare Workers

Melissa Kirwin

Reflections on One of the World’s Harshest COVID-19 Lockdowns, and on the Possibility of Eliminating COVID-19 in Australia

Laura K. McCosker

The Impact of Political Affiliation on Compliance with Shelter-in-place Orders: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis with County and Time Fixed Effects

Christina Chopra

Purdue Pharma and OxyContin – A Commercial Success But Public Health Disaster

Ronald Chow

Malaria in 1988: My Mother’s Fevered Baby

Raj Tawney

Examination of Community Health Profiles with Elevated COVID-19 Morbidity and Elevated COVID-19 Mortality

Harlem J. Gunness

Housing the Homeless During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Laura K. McCosker

A Proposed Symptoms-Based Syndromic Surveillance System

Aaron Schmid

Why the Hero Narrative is Problematic for Health Care Workers Like Me

Zaki Y. Azam

Is it Time for Artificial Intelligence to Invade Personal Privacy, for Pandemic Control?

Ronald Chow

Optimizing Big Data to Inform the Plausibility of Patient Debt

Sebastián R. Díaz and Vikrant Bhatnagar

Intergenerational Effects of Alcoholism, Children of Sober Alcoholics: Brain and Behavioral Risks, Interventions, and Implications

Julia Benville

Modernizing the Cuban Healthcare System by Updating Medical Immigration Rules

Dianelis Lopez

Tackling the Opioid Epidemic: Using the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Principles to Manage Gynecological Post-Op Pain

Kimia Etemadi

Acculturation, Familial Support, and Unhealthful Dietary Patterns: Evaluating Notable Trends in a Latino Population

Lauren E. Miller, Maud Joachim-Célestin, Marisol Lara, Simone Deshields, Susanne Montgomery, Camille Clark

Buprenorphine Prior Authorization Removal: Low Hanging Fruit in the Opioid Overdose Crisis

Tamara Beetham

“The War on Drugs”: The Case of Bangladesh

Nazrul Islam

A Place To Call Home

Solange Paredes

Youth in Global Health: IFMSA at 71st World Health Assembly and Youth PreWHA, 2018

Ankit Raj

A Comparison of 2017 YRBS Data Regarding Weapon-Related Violence in Duval County, Florida and Nationwide

Briana Lopez, Madisen Reasonover, Camryn Bergeron, Makinlea Dozier, Judith Rodriguez, PhD, RDN

The Importance of Effective Communication in Healthcare Practice

Haran Ratna

Culturally Sensitive Cooking Classes to Increase Healthy Cooking Confidence in the Latino Community

Christine Nguyen, Arram Noshirvan, Julia Tong, Jason Blanks, Bing Ling Wu, Morrell Chhay, Mariel Marquez, Angelica Juarez, Efrain Talamantes, Christopher Y. Itoh

Conflicts of Patient-Caregiver Communication and Some Workable Solutions

Vanessa Collins

In the Context of Palliative Care

Ian Wee

Case Report of Non-Communicable Diseases in Uganda: Addressing Challenges with Access to Healthcare and How Community Health Workers May Be a Potential Solution

Chinelo Onyilofor

Modicare: A Universal Experience Gone Wrong

Indu Prakash

Food Stamp Policy is Failing. Here’s Why.

Sajen Plevyak

CVS-Aetna Merger: Benefiting Consumers’ Health, If Not Their Pocketbooks

Catherine Gallori

In the Time of #MeToo, Protections for Survivors Still At Risk

Amanda Graff

Is Advertising a Social Determinant of Health—You Bet!

Shantel Herbert-Magee

The Opioid Epidemic in Massachusetts: Can Current Legislation Address New Challenges?

Sravanthy Gumidyala

Bioterrorism, Public Health and Civil Liberties

Stefano Bonino

The Syrian Mental Health Crisis: Present Findings and Future Directions

Ahmad Hassan

Does Requiring Work, Work? The Data on Medicaid Work Requirements

Elizabeth Sherman

Are You a Non-Smoker Visiting the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games? Be Advised.

Kota Yoshioka

Why We Need Price Transparency in Healthcare

Kristoffer Szumigalski

The Kids Could Be Alright: a Call for Comprehensive Sexual Education

Kate Kollars

Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Swedish Clinical Cancer Trials: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Experiences

Robert Spörndly, Stefan Eriksson, and Tove E. Godskesen

Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Human Right of Access to Health Care

Larissa Bolliger and Arja R. Aro

Death, Violence, Health, and Poverty in Chicago

Earl Fredrick, III, MD, MBA

Gun Safety: A Call to License Arms

Ryan M. Kane, MPH

Contingent Workers and Occupational Health

Garry L. Mullins Jr.

Dying in the Shadows: Suicide Among the Homeless

Lori Holleran, PhD, MPH, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Gabrielle Poon, PhD, Department of Psychology, Palo Alto University

Climate Change: An Emergent Issue of Public Health in Peru

Francisco N. Bedoya, MD

The Importance of HIV in Controlling Tuberculosis among Canada’s Indigenous Population

Dakoda J. Herman

Preventing Radicalization to Violence Through Partnerships and Collaboration

Heidi Ellis

Urban Climate-Health Strategies: New Opportunities to Promote Health Equity

Nishi Kumar

Applying Flexibility to the Primary Care Behavioral Health Model with Transient Populations

Dr. Stacy A. Ogbeide

Implications of Robotic Surgery

Eric Starble

Thank You, Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan

Leigh B. Grossman

Dear Medicine: Diabetes Prevention Is Not Your Battle to Fight

Braulio Torres and Elena Rose Atkinson

Flight Bans and the Ebola Crisis

Chelsea Ferrell and Pulkit Agarwal

Health Reform in the U.S.

Eric Coles

Health Care for India’s 500 Million: The Promise of the National Health Protection Scheme

Shalendra D. Sharma, PhD
Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

#MeToo: The Perfect Storm Needed to Change Attitudes Toward Sexual Harassment and Violence

Claire Bethel

What Are We Willing to Pay to Be Unhealthy?: A Markov Model for Diabetes Prevention

Justin Whetten

Don’t Blame the Smoker

Justin Kaplan

Equity in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Who Pays for Obesity Control?

Malcolm M. Kates and Hannah Hayward

The Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic: Marching Forward in India

Puneet Gupta

A Discussion of the Ethical and Medical Implications of Prenatal and Preimplantation Screening

Meenakshi Reddy

The Island of Conclusions: Trying to Make Sense Out of Genetically Engineered Food

Guy Crosby, PhD, CFS

Protecting the Public Health of Indian Tribes: The Indian Child Welfare Act

Joaquin R. Gallegos and Kathryn E. Fort

Reimagining Community Resilience with Health in All Policies

Madeline Morcelle

Addressing HIV/AIDS Within a New Administration

Ulysses Burley III

Odds, Arcs & Policy Change: A Look at a Public Health Campaign Taking on the Dietary Supplements Industry

S. Bryn Austin

Refugee Resettlement: An Important but Neglected Part of Global Health

Sumit Agarwal, MD

Brexit and Health: A Tragedy of Errors

Martin McKee and Rifat Atun

President Donald Trump Is a Threat to Public Health

Andrew S. Boozary and Cameron T. Nutt

Lead Poisoning: How What We Don’t Know Is Hurting America’s Children

Tara E. Ness and Brianne H. Rowan

Changes in Disease Patterns and Their Measures: A Case Study in Dental Health

Marc Tennant and Estie Kruger

Off the Podium: Why Public Health Concerns for Global Spread of Zika Virus Means That Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games Must Not Proceed

Amir Attaran

A Collaborative Approach to Promoting Continuing Care for Refugees: Philadelphia’s Strategies and Lessons Learned

Brittany DiVito, Colleen Payton, Gretchen Shanfeld, Marc Altshuler, Kevin Scott

Healthcare Recommendations For Recently Arrived Refugees: Observations from EthnoMed

J. Carey Jackson, Mahri Haider, Christine Wilson Owens, Nicole Ahrenholz, Alexandra Molnar, Beth Farmer, and Genji Terasaki

Accepting Refugees: Alternative Arguments for Canada

Michelle Amri

The Crisis in Our Own Backyard: United States Response to Unaccompanied Minor Children from Central America

Sural Shah

Undocumented Immigrants and the Inclusive Health Policies of Sanctuary Cities

Sheyda M. Aboii

Victims of a Broken System: A Syrian Refugee Family’s Struggle for Healthcare in Lebanon

Lara Jirmanus

Beyond Adjustments for Socioeconomic Status in Hospital Readmissions Penalties

Joshua M. Liao, Krisda Chaiyachati

Single-Payer Health Reform: A Step Toward Reducing Structural Racism in Health Care

Dominic F. Caruso, David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler

A Case for the Future of Global Health

Justin Healy

Improving Communities, Improving Health

Jeffrey Sanchez

Public Health and the Policing of Black Lives

Justin Feldman

Why Public Health Practitioners Should Care About Job Prospects for People with Criminal Records

Sonali Saluja and Henry Rosen

Climbing Down the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racial Injustice Through Community Health

Swathi Damodaran, Rebecca A. Gourevitch, Tiffany Lin, Nikhil A. Patel, Rosemary Phu, Kerrilynn Rice

Universal Health Coverage: an Overview and Lessons from Asia

Tsung-Mei Cheng

Dispelling Myths about Surgery’s Role in Global Health

Paul Farmer

Universal Health Care: The Affordable Dream

Amartya Sen

Creating a Pandemic of Health: Opportunities and Lessons for a University Initiative

S. Rani Kotha, Alejandro R. Jadad, and Howard Hu

Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Investing in Health Care Systems

Lydia E. Pace and Ingrid T. Katz

Global Clinical Trials: Ethics, Harmonization and Commitments to Transparency

Rebecca Li, Mark Barnes, Carmen E. Aldinger, and Barbara E. Bierer

Self-Interest as Motivation for International Cooperation Toward Universal Healthcare

Dustin T. Holloway

Defining the Future of Academic Medicine Globally: How U.S. Universities Should Step Up to the Plate

Michelle Morse

Europe and the United Nations: Clinical Trials, not Criminal Trials

Amir Attaran
Roger Bate
Stefano Bonino
Paul Newton

HPHR Editorial: Racism Is a Public Health Problem

Harvard Public Health Review Editorial Board

Capable Guardians

Felton Earls, M.D., HSPH Professor Emeritus of Human Behavior and Development

Police Killings, Political Impunity, Racism and the People’s Health: Issues for Our Times

Nancy Krieger, PhD

Trends in US Deaths Due to Legal Intervention Among Black and White Men

Nancy Krieger, PhD, Mathew V. Kiang, MPH, Jarvis T. Chen, DSc, and Pamela D. Waterman, MPH

The Key to Changing Individual Health Behaviors: Change the Environments That Give Rise to Them

by Brad Stulberg

How America’s Flawed Supplement Law Creates the Mirage of Weight Loss Cures

by Pieter Cohen

Medicare for All: The Way Forward

by Don Berwick

Was Mayor Bloomberg a Nanny?

by Cass R. Sunstein

Addressing Social Inequities to Create a More Just, Fair and Equitable World

A Conversation with Nancy Krieger
compiled by CJ Le Compte

ObamaCare’s 2014 Report Card? Preaching Patience — to Supporters and Opponents

by Benjamin D. Sommers