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Senior fellow Alicia Ely Yamin explains how mental health systems around the world fail people with psychosocial disabilities for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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How to Make Sense of the Psychedelics Executive Order
For those of us who work in the psychedelic field, the April 18 press conference announcing several actions to speed up psychedelic research was a watershed moment.
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Health AI Chatbots are Legally Medical Devices; It’s Time the FDA Started Treating Them Like It
In January 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health. OpenAI promises ChatGPT Health will help users clarify medical concepts, understand test results, prepare for appointments, and explore healthcare and wellness strategies — all while leveraging user-uploaded health records.
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Our Country Is Eroding Its Health Insurance Safety Net While Americans Need It More than Ever
On Oct. 8, 2025, I suffered a perforated bowel. My treatment included a great deal of inpatient and outpatient care over a period of six months. Yet I was lucky — not in experiencing a health crisis, but in having excellent health insurance.
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Dying, Addiction, and Psychedelics: Who Gets to Alter Consciousness?
Some state laws allow people with serious, life-threatening illnesses to choose when to die. But few jurisdictions allow people to choose how to experience their deaths.
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I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
December 2023
This interview focuses on Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
