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How mental health system failures are driven by political, social policies
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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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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Genetic Literacy Is a Public Health Imperative
We live in an age shaped by genetic biotechnology, yet an alarming number of Americans remain unequipped to understand and apply the basic concepts of genes and heredity.
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Prisons as Incubators of Drug Craving? How Incarceration Worsens Addiction Outcomes
The United States is a global leader in mass incarceration. It holds nearly 2 million Americans in prisons and jails, and it costs a whopping $445 billion annually to do so. About 65 percent of people in American prisons have an active substance use disorder (SUD).
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Medical Education and Health Care in a Just Society
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), representing the president’s administration, has taken aim at three of the nation’s top medical schools.
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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.
