.ashishkjha, President Biden’s COVID czar, says that public health isn’t just the absence of disease. It’s a “much broader sense of well-being that comes from spending time with family and friends and socializing and going to school and going to work.”
not as an emergency, but not something we can forget about, either. Is that the way that you see things? Are we condemned to repeat the recent past for the foreseeable future?
A lot of people think of communication as the icing on the cake. You have your policy, you have your recommendations, you get the science right, and the communication is kind of a nice-to-have. In a pandemic, that’s completely wrong. You need to engage the public, helping people understand, “Hey, the infection numbers are growing, and that means these are the three behavior changes you should make.”Net good.
Before the pandemic, you wrote about health policy at a blog titled “An Ounce of Evidence.” You didn’t complete the sentence, but I always imagined it to be something like “. . . beats a pound of opinion.” You’ve described yourself as a “reluctant academic” and have said that you didn’t want to do research at all. Then you built a career as one of the most productive health-policy researchers in the country. What happened?
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