Public health has faced significant challenges in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in the capacity to respond to public health emergencies, ...

Birx served as the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force under President Trump from 2020 to 2021. When Americans make decisions — like whether to pack an umbrella or prepare for a ...

First Responders are often the first to witness signs of an emerging health crisis — an unusual number of overdoses in one neighborhood, a surge in heat-related illness, or a wave of respiratory ...

Adolescent mental health and risk behaviors constitute a major and growing public health concern worldwide. Over the past decade, rates of depression, ...

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Quality data is critical to informing public health actions. That’s why every day, state and local health departments analyze and use health system data to protect and promote community health. They ...

Several years ago, public health officials in West Virginia observed a troubling trend: Far too many pregnant women in their state, as compared to others, were smoking, jeopardizing their health and ...

Hello, hello, and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We're recording this on 07/24/2025. I know I've mentioned it a couple times, but Health Affairs released its second ...

Public health departments depend on accurate and timely data to guide their efforts to control the spread of disease. Full integration of information technology is the norm for other essential data ...