Ildemaro Gonzalez Over the last several decades, public service announcements and improved health education have helped inform the American public about the severe health risks of smoking tobacco. The proliferation of this education, accompanied by increased cigarette excise taxes, and stricter public smoking policies have dramatically reduced smoking rates from 42% to approximately 18% of adults1. Despite this, however, smoking tobacco still leaves an astonishing … Continue reading The Economic Burden of Smoking

Charlotte Sagan On September 14, the 15 countries of the United Nations Security Council met in a historic emergency session marking the first ever Security Council meeting on a health issue: Ebola. In an extraordinarily rare consensus, the Council declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, “a threat to international peace and security.”1 With this declaration, a public health epidemic was officially labeled a global … Continue reading Ebola, A threat to Security?