After working as one of Colorado's top public health officials, Dr. Tista Ghosh advised Fortune 500 companies during the ...

Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies Carlos Martinez is a medical anthropologist and affiliated faculty member with UCSC’s Global and Community Health Program, whose work often ...

In 2006, Marion Nestle published the landmark book “What To Eat” to help guide readers through grocery stores that often were designed to sell high cost, high-calorie, and highly processed food. Now's ...

Here’s a sobering thought: the Covid-19 pandemic has been with us long enough that the first books written on the subject have already moved to the backlist. By July 2020, Hachette had published ...

When Meredith Li-Vollmer started working for King County's health department almost 20 years ago, the department was putting out a variety of public health information — making brochures and fliers, ...

Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his career as a disease detective, New York City’s health commissioner during a tuberculosis outbreak and CDC director during the Ebola crisis. In his new book, “The Formula ...

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New research from Columbia University suggests that nontraditional benefits, including flexible schedules and access to child care, may help keep public health workers under 35 on the job.

In 1881, after studying nearly a century of weather patterns, an Army meteorologist named John Park Finley came up with a simple way to understand when tornadoes were likely to happen—observing a ...

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The library said the goal of the section is to reduce the stigma around asking for help, with books and resources free to ...