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Public Health Pulse Podcast Season 2 Episode 2: Rob Wallace and Lara Jirmanus

Interview #1 We will briefly discuss the current landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications of ending the Public Health Emergency. We’ll look at some practical steps to address the current and likely future pandemics. And finally, we’ll raise the question of what kind of public health and scientific infrastructure could we have and […]

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Public Health Pulse Podcast Season 2 Episode 1: Cara Page and Edgar Rivera Colón

The inequitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic has heaped more trauma on working class communities especially Black, Indigenous, Latinex, Immigrant and disability & elderly communities. Today’s interview with Cara Page will discuss the definitions, origins, and timeliness of a Healing Justice framework toward the creation of an abolitionist, equitable and transformative system of health and

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People’s CDC Webinar

Communities are our best defense This week marks the first year anniversary of the establishment of the People’s CDC. With the federal government and countries around the world rolling back public health programs for controlling COVID-19, it’s clear such community efforts to shape public policy represent our best defense against a pandemic that continues to

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We Who Remember

A poem by Sam Friedman We, who remember how Presidents spat bile on junkies and fags, said Never Ever Never as they banned syringe exchange, and hid smiles of glee behind crocodile tears as AIDS deaths soared like the stocks of Dow Jones and Big Pharma, we, who remember, we, who cried, while the rich

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International Vaccine Disparities Worsen the Pandemic for All

Authors:Ellen Isaacs, MD, New York Medical College (retired) andKaryn Pomerantz, MLS,MPH, George Washington University (retired) Reviewers:People’s CDC Standards Review Team Member who cannot be namedRita Valenti, RNJosh Garoon, PhD, University of Wisconsin-MadisonElaine A. Hills, PhD, Independent Public Health Scientist From the point of view of public health, there are two overwhelming reasons to promote global

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