2022

Fall/Winter 2022

Reproductive and sexual health is the focus of this issue’s special section—highlighting barriers to achieving it, solutions to attain it, and its central role in public health. Our writers examine the moral, political, and legal history of abortion in America; the peril of being pregnant and incarcerated in a post-Roe world; and the tough ethical questions raised by a proposal to limit fertility to help solve climate change. Plus: the pandemic’s toll on research and the resilience of researchers, an introduction to the human body’s universe of microbiomes, and attacks on health care workers and the targeting of health facilities as modern warfare.

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Spring/Summer 2022

The Spring/Summer 2022 issue looks at public health through the lens of justice, illuminating efforts to break down fundamental barriers to health. We examine how Native American researchers are integrating Indigenous traditions into novel public health efforts to heal historical trauma; propose ways to overturn outdated colonial concepts and practices; and offer solutions to build a healthier and more equitable food system. Plus: the health risks of beauty salons, a practical guide for talking to vaccine-hesitant parents, and the age of antivirals.

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The Last Pixel

Jackie Powder

Departments

1 minute read

An illustration of a white butterfly and its shadow.

Turning Crisis Into Change

Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD ’79, ScM ’75

The U.S. needs a national public health system. Here’s why—and how to create it.

4 minute read

Sexual + Reproductive Health

1 minute read

Gifty Atanga inspects a culture in MMI Professor Andy Pekosz's lab.

Vision

1 minute read

Meet Your Microbiomes

Brian W. Simpson

We're arguably more parts microbe than human—and our health depends on their health.

3 minute read

Illustration of a man sitting on a small chair inside a Plexiglass box

Discovery

1 minute read

In a Laniar, Senegal, health center, a health worker from Marie Stopes offers reproductive health counseling and family planning in 2014.

Toward Universal Family Planning

Dayna Kerecman Myers

Expanding access at a pivotal moment in the movement

4 minute read

A cigarette tied in a knot over a cloud of smoke.

The Tobacco Endgame

Brian W. Simpson

Inside the international fight to eliminate commercial tobacco sales

4 minute read

An illustration of a woman chained to a gestational sac.

Incarcerated and Pregnant in Post-Roe America

Anna Louie Sussman

Access to abortion and other reproductive health care was already inconsistent in the U.S. carceral system. The Dobbs decision will make the situation even worse.

Features

6 minute read