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Sandro Galea will step down as dean of the BU School of Public Health at the end of the year to join Washington University in St. Louis.

As the possibility of a new pandemic looms, influential figures are telling us we shouldn’t have been so worried about the last one. This spells trouble.

In 1986, an upstart public health researcher named Arline Geronimus challenged the conventional wisdom that condemned the alarming rise of inner-city teen pregnancies. While activist minister Jesse Jackson and health care leaders were decrying the crisis of “babies having babies” as a ghetto pathology, Geronimus contended that teenage pregnancy was a rational response to urban poverty where low-income black people have fewer healthy years before the onset of heart problems, diabetes, and oth...

What role may public health officials have played in fostering public distrust of them?

The pandemic brought a massive effort to limit the spread of bad health information. Did it do more harm than good?

In his new book, Sandro Galea says that the public health community needs better communication and decision-making in advance of the next pandemic.

The pandemic brought a massive effort to limit the spread of bad health information. Did it do more harm than good?

But the answer isn't to pretend to be infallible.

During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a Pew poll released this month. In 2019, only 13% of Americans were distrustful enough to say they weren’t

During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a Pew poll released this month. In 2019, only 13% of Americans were distrustful enough to say they weren’t