The Realities of a Healthy American Population

Making a healthier country means putting prevention at the heart of our health agenda, in addition to delivering high-quality, accessible health care to all who need it, writes Sandro Galea.

The Value of Academic Health Research

If a country sees itself as a robust, vibrant, thriving, and growing country—as certainly the US of myth and nationalistic narrative suggests it to be—it requires a strong academic health research enterprise to allow it to inhabit that vision of itself. That should make academic health research as core to the national identity as our vision of a democratic country that permits and encourages self-determination. Academic health research makes all the rest of it possible, writes Sandro Galea.

Universities Must Reject Creeping Politicization

The universities we oversee have drawn a line against politicization so that we can continue contributing to the nation’s competitiveness and strength abroad, and to stability and prosperity here at home. All American research universities should do the same, writes Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

‘The power of maps’

Patty Heyda, a professor at the Sam Fox School, writes an article on the Arts & Sciences “Human Ties” blog about her latest book “Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA.” Maps are instruments of power — and of resistance, she said.
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