Frederick J. Zimmerman

Few measures taken to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are more far-reaching and consequential than closing schools, which disrupts children’s socioemotional learning and academic performance^1-3 as well as parents’ employment and education. The economic costs of school closures in the US in the spring of 2020 have been estimated to be some $2 trillion dollars^4,5 and fall most heavily on those least able to withstand them.^2,6,7 However, although schools are sites of influenza transmission,⁸ the evidence on school closures and reduced COVID-19 spread is inconclusive.

Policy Points: The historical mission of public health is to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy, and yet the field of public health has been distracted from this mission by an excessive reliance on randomized‐control trials, a lack of formal theoretical models, and a fear of politics. The field of population health science has emerged to rigorously address all of these constraints. It deserves ongoing and formal institutional support.

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA) Less Health Care, More Health: The Inverse U of Medical Spending and Health in the United States, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 110 Issue 12

“What is common is alright, we presume,” remarked Geoffrey Rose,(p427) and one of the more common associations with population health is food marketing. The wid