During a moment of challenge, signs of hope.
It has by now been amply discussed that public health faces a daunting and challenging landscape. The all-too-recent pandemic and other disruptions have strained institutions and eroded the public’s trust in what we do—a hard lesson that trust should be tended like a garden lest it wither, driving the public toward unreliable voices. Political upheavals and misinformation have further tested the foundations of public health.
And yet, this unsettled environment, there are signs of hope.
Green shoots are sprouting all around us. If we look carefully enough, we can see promising developments that hint at a renewal in public health. In my role as Dean of the Washington University School of Public Health, I am privileged to be able to see these signs of hope every day, in the good work of colleagues who are creating a brighter present and future for public health. I would like to take a moment today to highlight some of this work, to give a sense of the progress being made on health globally, nationally, and locally, even in this moment of disruption.
Global green shoots
There is much to worry about in global health. But there are also enormous positives happening all around us.
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