Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. The first is a scene from the film “And The Band Played On,” based on the book of the same name, about the AIDS epidemic.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.” or Health 2.0”

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Bill of Health

JULY 27, 2023

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

healthcare system, representing just one example of “healthcare federalism” — the division of power between the federal and state governments in the regulation of health care. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the position of the federal government clear, stating: “[T]he FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I’ve been privileged to be able to work not only with non-governmental and grass-roots organizations but also with national governments and courts, as well as with UN bodies. I am so grateful to PFC and the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) for supporting new stream of interdisciplinary work on evolving governance in global health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “We all benefit from the robust sharing of our data, because insights that may benefit all of us can be garnered,” I quoted a Stanford faculty study in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. The bar chart illustrates this point, capturing how U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

federal government’s oversight wheels began to grind into a different gear, signaling that they did not like that a Chinese firm was gaining such access to U.S. Following a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government mandated that iCarbonX divest its ownership in PLM. But the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Already, abortion bans that are on the books in some states punish the abortion provider, making it a felony to provide an abortion. As noted by several scholars, the Dobbs decision will have impacts on laws governing areas other than reproductive rights. Soon, we will see abortion seekers criminalized in the same way.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. The book is intelligently critical of what was done during the pandemic, but at all points it remains within the confines of what is “politically respectable.” Produced by an eminently established collection of people, The COVID Crisis Group.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust,” Dr. Eric Topol wrote in his 2019 book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. I’ll be sharing more about that with you in my upcoming book on health care consumerism and beyond… so stay tuned for that plotline.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The fact that the accelerated vaccine development story made the cover photo in “The Good Business Issue” is emblematic of the growing civic and business consciousness of ESG principles — for environmental, societal, and governance pillars for responsible investment.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

Enough businesses must make enough money or serious social consequences follow — for them, their employees, and for government. The tendency to social murder creates potential problems that governments must manage, since states too are subject to pressures and tendencies arising from capitalism.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

To “unlock” that value, the NHS and British government would have to collaborate with organizations — private and public — to, in the words of Todd Park, liberate the data and develop patient insights. Together, EY calculated that “the curated NHS data set” could yield an annual value of £9.6

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a MarketWatch headline put it , “Dow, S&P 500 book best day in two weeks after Biden vows no return to March 2020-style lockdowns as Omicron rages.”. government, under a right-wing prime minister, has rejected the five-day isolation period embraced by a U.S. The markets approved of this last message. Even the U.K.

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