I don’t think that there’s ever been a more important time to think about what makes Americans healthy, and to really understand what makes Americans healthy we need data, we need information, we need community… and I think that’s one of the amazing things that academic public health centers really do is they help to create the data, look at the data, analyze the information, connect with community, and provide really the structure and framework for understanding how health is formed and how we lead healthy and wonderful lives. I often times say that healthy economies are built with healthy people and there’s no better way to understand what makes us healthy to understand public health.
