Academic Public Health Perspectives
Expert voices on public health from ASPPH and our member community
Academic Public Health Perspectives is a dedicated space for expert viewpoints and reflective commentary from ASPPH and our member community. This collection features opinion pieces and essays that explore both timely and enduring issues shaping public health and academic public health, creating a searchable, authoritative archive of ideas and voices advancing the field. We invite members and partners to submit original, accessible contributions that share insight, raise questions, and reflect the leadership of academic public health.
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Mental Well-Being in Academia: Excellence Should Not Require Exhaustion
Mental health is no longer a challenge we can afford to address at the margins of public health. The recently published Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health…
Why Health Professionals Delay Mental Health Care for Years
Public health students learn early to look for the gap between when a problem begins and when anyone responds to it. We teach that lens for hypertension, for overdose, for…
Maternal Health Programs Need a Continuity Budget, Not Just a Launch Budget
After giving birth, a woman leaves the hospital with discharge instructions and a referral. But the specialist has not received her records, the first appointment is weeks away, and the…
When Two Roads Diverge, Take Them Both: Connecting Environmental and Occupational Health
With few exceptions, every industrial chemical exposure that threatens “environmental health” emerged from a workplace, often at a higher concentration. A similar pattern often occurs with ionizing radiation and even…
Nevada Can Prevent Congenital Syphilis. Testing Is Only the First Step.
I traveled more than 9,000 miles from Las Vegas to Zanzibar this summer to study how climate change exposes weaknesses in health systems. I expected to come home thinking about…