Contributing Editor, Harvard Public Health

I edited features, opinion articles, and book reviews for Harvard Public Health magazine from January 2024 until it closed in February 2025. We examined solutions that aim to address some of the world’s urgent public health problems.

Read stories by health care journalists, critics, and opinion leaders Eric Coles, Grace Han, Rod McCullom, Paul Adepoju, Felice J. Freyer, Liz Seegert, Alexandra Moe, Andrew Green, Rachel Fairbank, Maura Kelly, Julia M. Klein, Will James, and Veronica Adamson. Find out about efforts to improve health care access and outcomes, fight AIDs and malaria, address the shortage of home health care workers, help grieving fathers, improve research outcomes, reduce traffic deaths, save lives during wildfires, and more.

Articles linked below have been archived by the Harvard University Countway Library Center for History of Medicine.

Feature articles

“People forget about the fathers.” In the barren world of men’s grief, the Sad Dads Club allows fathers to mourn openly.

The new kind of volunteer firefighter: How a brigade of locals became a key force in protecting people from the L.A. fires.

Researchers tried to fix a racist lung test. It got complicated.

No research about us without us? When researchers include the people they study in the research process, outcomes improve.

“When you design roads, that is public health.” Research shows people in the U.S. think traffic deaths are inevitable, but they aren’t.

What’s working in the 19 countries on track to help end AIDS

Could worker cooperatives be a fix for the home care worker shortage?

It took decades to get a malaria vaccine. Now comes the hard part. Multiple doses, remote communities, and heat are all obstacles on the front line.

Opinion

Can nurse practitioners solve the primary care shortage? Without enough doctors, the U.S. needs other avenues of access.

How to reverse the decline in U.S. maternal health. Moms need help navigating a bewildering system of specialists.

It’s time to free public health from health care. For too long, a bias toward medicine has limited public health’s potential.

Book reviews

Hope as a catalyst for change in Climate Futures. How public health can move from doomscrolling to action

The culmination of a “silent eldercide going on for decades” A provocative book puts nursing home COVID-19 deaths under the microscope.

Way Home invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close. A picture of the unrelenting displacement, danger, and exclusion experienced by the unhoused.