In 1981, Doll and Peto published a well-known paper estimating that roughly 75-80% of cancer mortality was preventable. Forty years later, cancer mortality has declined some overall – but we still see vast disparities. Some of these disparities have gotten worse over time. With the Biden administration’s reignited Cancer Moonshot initiative, combined with a renewed… Read More »
The opioid epidemic and substance use disorders have garnered national attention as overdose deaths continue at an alarming rate. Synthetic opioids – chiefly fentanyl – are the culprit in many of those deaths. The Commission’s report Earlier this month, the bipartisan Congressional Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, with representatives from many Federal agencies and… Read More »
In this episode of our podcast series, Samyuktha Anand, secretary-elect for the Medical Care section, recaps the blog posts we published in January. Next, Jess Williams, co-editor, interviews Nien Chen Li about her recently published paper — a winner of the APHA Medical Care Section’s Student Paper Award in 2020. Dr. Li’s paper is about… Read More »