Craig Spencer MD MPH
@Craig_A_Spencer
ER doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Foundations of Public Health Policy & Practice @Brown_SPH | Emmy Award Winner 🏆
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Just Released - our report on Gaza’s Silent Killings: The Destruction of the Health Care System and the Struggle for Survival in Rafah.
A military offensive in Rafah on top of the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza would be an unfathomable catastrophe. doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-th…
🚨 Health care is the new battlefront for anti-DEI attacks by myself Jessica Isom MD MPH Rupi Legha, MD (she/her)
'Now is not the time for healthcare institutions & professional organizations to retreat, but instead, to be ready & prepared to rebuff anti-DEI attacks.'
dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…
Brown Community Members!📣 This Friday: 'The Public Health Crisis in Gaza'
Featuring Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, Danielle (Dani) Poole, ScD MPH of Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Mohammad Subeh, recently returned from Gaza, and Ella Watson-Stryker of Doctors w/o Borders.
Please RSVP!👇🏽 events.brown.edu/public-health/…
I am thrilled to announce a new initiative to recruit, train and empower the next generation of biosecurity and pandemic leaders. Today, the Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health is launching with our partners 'Biosecurity Game Changers'--a new, paid fellowship program. Come work with us and top orgs!
The decline in American life expectancy is an issue that extends beyond health—it affects our economy too. #HealthyNYC serves as a model for other cities/states, demonstrating the importance of a holistic approach to tackle the root causes of this crisis: latimes.com/opinion/story/…
Carlos del Rio Craig Spencer MD MPH Los Angeles Times Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 that also ultimately serves to help prevent epidemic disasters, etc. I'd love to see us shift toward this bottom-up narrative framing of public health. We should in fact see it working every day via social caregiving rather than imagining it as invisible bureaucrats at the CDC.
The decline in American life expectancy
is an economic crisis, too
by me & Craig Spencer MD MPH in the @LATimes.
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
'A 1-year increase in life expectancy could boost economic output by 4%.'
To build back stronger, public health’s past must inform its future.
In this Los Angeles Times essay Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 and I present the moral and economic imperatives for investing in public health.
We explore where the field came from.
And where it must go. ⤵️
latimes.com/opinion/story/…