03.30.21 Reflections: Acknowledging the Challenges To my fellow changemakers, The end of my tenure at MFH is drawing…
02.23.21 Revitalizing Public Health in Missouri In normal times, the public health system operates in the background, largely unnoticed…
01.28.21 My Take on the COVID-19 Vaccine: Choice, Lived Experience, and Trust In 2021 all Missourians are participating, one way or another, in a life-and-death…
12.09.20 Looking Back, Looking Forward: Hopes for a Healthier 2021 2020 is a hard year. 2021 will soon be here. In my mind,…
10.15.20 Systems Change is the Change We Need Conversation starter: Ask your friends if they feel optimistic about the times that…
09.16.20 What Brings Us Together in Missouri? Missouri’s recent passage of Medicaid expansion was a significant step toward the long-term…
07.22.20 A Tale of Two Systems – The shortchanging of public health We have two health systems in this country. One – our health care…
05.13.20 Inequity: Society’s Most Important Pre-Existing Condition As published and seen in the May 11, 2020, issue of Health Affairs…