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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

Also, check out the following links for more on Susannah’s journey into Rebel Health — STAT Q&A: A scholar of the patient “revolution” tracks the arc from powerlessness to influence Harvard Public Health magazine Q&A: The patient-led care revolution and follow #RebelHealth on your social channels.

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Bill of Health

State pharmaceutical bans and restrictions — which are often medically unnecessary and instead based largely on policymakers’ moral and political views — impede the FDA’s mandate to protect and promote the public health. In appropriate circumstances, states could seek an exemption to address a state-specific public health need.

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#LoveThyNeighbor – A Faith-Based Call for Vaccination

Health Populi

CHA launched a portal on the act of love , featuring lots of science-based articles and features to bolster health literacy on the topic of vaccines, vaccinations, and public health. Interviewed in the Jesuit magazine America in August 2021, Sister Mary was quoted to say , “I do believe that we need to mandate the vaccine.”

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My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

I added in an image from an old magazine ad for a microscope, and then printed out an Instagram-sized photo of a pin from a member of the “Dr. ” [A note of pandemic pop culture: Dr. Fauci has become something of a science rock star for some people, making the cover page of In Style magazine ]. Anthony Fauci Fan Club.”

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. ” And here is another mainstream media take on Melissa’s “secret battle with depression” in People magazine, 22nd March 2021.

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

They leafed through magazines or scrolled on their phones, waiting. Neither of these circumstances applied to Nebraska Twenty. Yet, I never used his real name. I routinely passed by his room with two officers posted outside at all times. They too had become part of my daily routine, but I never spoke to them directly.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”

Health Populi

The photo is an illustration I cut out of a magazine of people wearing m asks from different walks of life and demographics. The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis. Q is for quarantine.