My book Why Black People Die Sooner begins by explaining that the small genetic differences that exist between African and European Americans could not possibly explain the magnitude of the health and longevity disparities that have...
Volume 27, no. 3
Public Health
Autumn 2026
It is not whether robots can perform certain functions, but why technological fixes are prioritized over rebuilding care as a collectively financed and democratically governed public infrastructure.
Dr. Víctor Penchaszadeh played a crucial role in connecting the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo with scientists such as Mary-Claire King to develop the index of grandparentage and forging the international networks that sustained what would...
How can the history of the Brazilian anti-asylum struggle inspire models of deinstitutionalization that avoid extractive abandonment, and how can the radicalism of workers’ and patients’ movements continue to shape this struggle?
For fifty-one days from June to August 2024, and again over the same months in 2025, groups of young public health workers in Nairobi did protest epidemiology: a mobilization of public health tools for the explicit advancement of mass...
In the words of the public health scholars and historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, we are all in worlds that kill some of us.
Sense can be made in recalling that estrangement is indivisible from capital accumulation. As such, it is worth qualifying how disruptions to mental health intensify and show uneven effects for persons involved in wage-labor including...
The systems and tools for delivering public health interventions like vaccination programs are so well-codified that public health as a practice has become synonymous with public health as an institution.
Insurgent medicine in Appalachia is born out of direct confrontations with a carceral healthcare system. It embodies autonomous, community-led care that refuses institutional control and sustains community survival across life experiences...
Where other governments at least performed a commitment to an acceptable public health ethics, the Duterte regime deployed military force, weaponized language, and colonized the ethical register itself to justify policies that punished the...
Humanitarian aid flows sustain life at a minimum and manages Palestinians as permanent humanitarian cases while foreclosing self-determination. The article explores how this operates through what we term humanitarian Zionism in Gaza: an...
Black women’s bodies and health are on the frontlines of the US public health system. Laws that fail to protect women from the men who claim to love them, disproportionately impact Black women. Laws that aim to restrict women's bodily...
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Since 2014, activists across the United States and in Mexico have rebuilt the organization, which now has about a dozen active local chapters and numerous working groups that bring people in different locations together to work on specific...