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The Invisible Shield
Cholera and the Modern Public Health System
How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern public health system.
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Life expectancy is declining. How do we rethink the system before it's too late?

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Disinformation and misunderstanding, skepticism of science, and distrust of government.

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Data has been an essential public health tool since at least the seventeenth century.

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Public health has doubled our life expectancy, but the system is in jeopardy.