Perspectives

The Influenza Imperative: An Urgent Need to Leverage Lessons from COVID-19 to Prepare for a Global Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...

An Innovative Approach to Employer-Provided Benefits for Obesity Care: A Case Report on H-E-B’s Healthier Lifestyle Choices Program

by Madeleine Deye | Sep 19, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The Clinical and Economic Impact of Obesity Obesity presents a formidable challenge to health care financing systems. According to the 2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES), rates of obesity among U.S. adults have now climbed to 42.8% (Hales...

Eighth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge: Addressing Infectious Diseases Using a Population Health Approach: Prevention and Control of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Young Adults 18-24

by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 8, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  This discussion paper provides an overview of the eighth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/), a competition held in 2021 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the...

The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 27, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Digital Health in the 21st Century Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and negative effects of these changes have been...

Building Community Power to Achieve Health and Racial Equity: Principles to Guide Transformative Partnerships with Local Communities

by Madeleine Deye | Jun 13, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

Introduction Leaders and practitioners across industries—including public health, health care, and clinical settings; local, state, and federal government agencies; and academic institutions—are asking hard questions about what it will take to achieve health equity....

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 13, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Introduction The last few decades have seen an upsurge in research linking health outcomes to the “conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age,” commonly referred to as the social determinants of...