Rick Lesaar
The intersection of health and communications; on strategies to make global health and development efforts more effective and more widely and fully understood.
Donald Trump has proposed increasing the US defense budget by an additional $500 Billion dollars, for a total of $1.5 Trillion. See how that extra could be better spent on both global and US public health.
Read MoreEnd-of-year book lists are not including books about science, at a time when everyone needs to know more, not less, about science, and a time when we need to be more skeptical, not less, of the administration’s claims about science.
Read MoreBeginning today and over the next two years, we should collectively assemble a comprehensive plan for the next American administration to restore the country’s public health system and its role in global health leadership. We should be creating the ‘Health Recovery Plan’ now rather than wait for a hectic transition period in 2020/2021.
Read MoreLike all of his or her predecessors, the next Secretary General of the UN will have little to no significant experience in global health. Is this a problem or a missed opportunity?
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