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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

school news SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall Members of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies.

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Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?

The Health Care Blog

This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. In 1992, the IOM served notice with the publication of “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in The United States.” Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat.