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How can one person completely change the results of a survey?
In public health, we rely heavily on samples, as measuring everyone you are interested is often impractical. However, this requires a lot of thought and development in order to avoid unintentionally...
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Which diseases do we get to “fight”?
About two weeks ago, the Hospital for Sick Children, also known as SickKids, launched their new ad campaign. For those who aren’t from Canada, SickKids is based in Toronto, Ontario, is the second...
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The only way to save Obamacare is to expand it
The Affordable Care Act was a landmark piece of legislation for the United States. While most other G-20 countries already have some form of universal healthcare (either through a single payer system,...
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2016: A Year in Review
Thanks to all our old and new Public Health Perspectives readers for your support over the year. Your tweets, Facebook comments, and feedback are all really appreciated. Lets wrap up the year by...
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Which policies lead to less abortion? The ACA, state law & The Supreme Court
Abortion is at a historic low in the United States. Two factors are likely responsible for the drop in abortion rates: restrictions on abortion, and better access to birth control. Birth control...
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Visualizing public health: How bad is the drug overdose epidemic?
In healthcare we’re data rich, but information poor. There are lots of surveys, studies, and healthcare data available to us through different programs, but very rarely do we see it presented in way...
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Sickle Cell Awareness Day: Creating a national day of action (Part 1)
Today, we’re welcoming Senator Jane Cordy, a Senator from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Mrs. Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, President & Executive Director of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Canada to the...
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Sickle Cell Awareness Day: Navigating the political process (Part 2)
Today, we’re continuing our interview with Senator Jane Cordy, a Senator from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Mrs. Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, President & Executive Director of the Sickle Cell Disease...
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Thoughts and advice for the class of 2021
Last week, I saw someone ask a very simple question on Facebook: “If you could give one piece of advice to those starting undergrad next week, what would it be?” The comments were interesting. Several...
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Sanitizing public health language: A response to the CDC language controversy
0000-0002-8715-2896 PLOSBLOGS Network & Public Health Perspectives are pleased to present this guest post discussing a public health controversy that, because it occurred late in December of...
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