Power, politics, privilege, and health

The importance of improving community health; the health ramifications of ex-cons’ difficulties finding employment; and how public health experts can address discriminatory policing are among the topics in the July 2015 issue of Harvard Public Health Review (HPHR), which focuses on power, politics and privilege.

Authors of the six articles in the issue hail from the medical community, advocacy organizations, business, and politics, and several are alumni or students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Articles in the July 2015 issue (Volume 6) of HPHR include:

Single-Payer Health Reform: A Step Toward Reducing Structural Racism in Health Care
Dominic F. Caruso, MD/MPH candidate, David U. Himmelstein, MD; Steffie Woolhandler, MD

A Case for the Future of Global Health
Justin Healy, MD MPH

Improving Communities, Improving Health
Jeffrey Sanchez, Massachusetts State Representative

Public Health and the Policing of Black Lives
Justin Feldman, MPH, MSW

Why Public Health Practitioners Should Care About Job Prospects for People with Criminal Records
Sonali Saluja and Henry Rosen

Climbing Down the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racial Injustice Through Community Health
Swathi Damodaran, Rebecca A. Gourevitch, Tiffany Lin, Nikhil A. Patel, Rosemary Phu, Kerrilynn Rice

Also new at HPHR: Founding editor-in-chief Andrew Boozary, SM ’14, is turning over the reins to two new co-editors-in-chief this fall—Circe Le Compte, SM ’14, and James Yeh, MPH ’15.