“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”

In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former...

From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world As two scientists who lived through...

Although securing grants in a competitive environment is challenging, researchers can ensure they put their best foot forward by following a few simple tips.

Antoine Levie speaks to Zeynep Pamuk, Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, about her recent book ‘Politics and Experti...

This Viewpoint discusses the global challenge of defining diseases and the need to balance broader access to medical treatment with avoidance of harmful medicaliziation and inefficient resource use.

Riley and colleagues discuss the importance of presenting the uncertainty around risk estimates provided by clinical prediction models.1 They describe how uncertainty and bias can be caused by poor me...

The systematic review by Naomi Tan and colleagues published in The Lancet Public Health (February issue) on the perceptions of personalised risk-based cancer screening reflects a growing trend in the ...

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these teams will make America sicker, writes former CDC Director Tom Frieden.

Background High sodium (Na) and low potassium (K) intakes in childhood have health effects across the life course. The objective was to estimate global, regional and national Na and K intakes in child...

Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to notice more of them.

At the end of February 1960, my sister, a precocious, healthy child was halfway through the fourth grade in Rockland County when she contracted measles from one of her classmates who lived right down…

18 millions de cas de malaria supplémentaires par année, causant plus de 160 000 décès. Quelque 200 000 enfants paralysés chaque année à cause de la polio. Un million d’enfants sans traitements pour s...

Life course epidemiology aims to study the effect of exposures on health outcomes across the life course from a social, behavioural, and biological perspective. In this Review, we describe how life co...

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

Life course epidemiology aims to study the effect of exposures on health outcomes across the life course from a social, behavioural, and biological perspective. In this Review, we describe how life co...

For far too long, we have lacked meaningful insights into people’s experiences of healthcare and their health outcomes. The Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS) is a groundbreaking OECD initiati...

Abstract. Social epidemiology is concerned with the health effects of forces that are “above the skin.” Although causal inference should be a key goal for

In the past month, the academic health research community in the US has been rocked by the new administration’s efforts to curtail health research expenditures. In the form of “Supplemental Guidance t...