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Has Public Health Lost Its Way? This Public Health Dean Thinks So.

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.74.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Abdul sits down with Prof. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health to talk about his new book, Within Reason, in which Galea argues that the pandemic uncovered an “illiberal,” even, at times, authoritarian, strain within the public health community.

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I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Well said it. You know, most of us in public health, and I think I speak for almost all of us, don't think of ourselves as

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authoritarian. In fact, most of us probably think of ourselves as just the

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opposite. Public health after all is focused on empowering the communities we

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serve through the single most foundational

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ingredient of our lives, our health. We save lives, we tell ourselves. Of course we do good.

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But then who gets to define what's good?

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