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We live in a non-ideal world and public health interventions must be designed and implemented with such imperfections in mind.
Even where interventions are unpopular, the pursuit of a just world cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
Even the best pandemic planning cannot account for elected representatives refusing to govern in the name of public health.
The failure to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States rests, in part, on the individualist nature of our public health responses.
By Daniel Goldberg As a major tool in harm reduction policy connected to opioid and substance misuse, more than 30 states have implemented syringe exchange programs, or SEPs. Surmounting or, in many cases, bypassing the…
By Daniel Goldberg Public health law can integrate medical and social understandings of disability in ways that promise to reduce disability stigma and enhance epistemic justice. However, models of disability currently embedded in public health…
By Daniel Goldberg {SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT} A new article of mine is out in the Journal of Legal Medicine entitled “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, the National Football League, and the Manufacture of Doubt: An Ethical,…
By Daniel Goldberg According to the website, the Oregon Health Study “is the first randomized controlled experiment to examine the causal effects of having some type of insurance coverage versus having no insurance at all.” …
By Daniel Goldberg Reading Nir’s thought-provoking post below sparked a couple of thoughts in my mind regarding fatness, ethics, and population health. The first is what I take to be the professional obligation to engage…
