The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Ensure a More Successful Future for Science and Public Health | Public Health | JAMA
Mark W. Tenforde, MD, PhD; Kiva A. Fisher, PhD, MPH; Manish M. Patel, MD, MSc With the advent of the 21st century, science and technology were expected to be formidable forces that would hopefully improve population health and well-being. 1 Furthermore, these forces would drive a rapidly changing and interconnected world, with communities and nations worldwide sharing common rewards (eg, economic development, health, and welfare) and facing common risks (eg, pandemics, chronic noncommunicable diseases, environmental damage, nuclear weapons, climate change). In this context, effective go...