While women's healthcare extends far beyond reproductive healthcare, its politicization is harming women's overall health and well-being.
Leana S. WenRead
Improvements in global public health must begin locally, and must be driven by leaders who will learn the hard lessons from COVID-19.
Interpretation
Local initiatives led by informed leaders are essential for improving global public health.
The quote emphasizes the importance of starting health improvements at a community level while drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests that effective local leadership, informed by past experiences, is crucial in addressing public health challenges globally.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech addressing local health initiatives.
While women's healthcare extends far beyond reproductive healthcare, its politicization is harming women's overall health and well-being.
We really need to be talking about the COVID vaccine the same way that we talk about other vaccinations - which is that it's safe, effective, life-saving and essential for the public's health.
Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice.
Mental health is just as important as physical health, but why is it that we can't find the same access to mental health treatment as we do for physical health ailments?
My parents and I entered the U.S. legally, but when it was time for our visa extension, we were turned down. Returning to China meant imprisonment for my father and persecution for my family. We were days from being forced to live here illegally when we were granted political asylum. Other families are not so lucky.
When I was 10 years old, my neighbor died in front of me of an asthma attack, because he and his family were undocumented immigrants and his grandmother was afraid of what would happen if they called an ambulance for help.
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.
If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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