Viewpoints

VIEWPOINT 9 April 2026 Richard Pearshouse Air pollution rarely appears on death certificates. With a notable exception from a London coroner’s report following the death of a nine-year-old girl in 2013, individual deaths are not typically…

Letter to the Editor, 12 March 2026 Natalie Kate C. Ramirez The viewpoint by Joseph J. Amon, “Politicized Science and Attacks on Public Health,” highlights a pressing concern regarding the growing politicization of scientific discourse and its…

VIEWPOINT Swarupa Deb This viewpoint critically analyzes contemporary global opposition to pediatric gender-affirming care (GAC) as a regulatory ideology that justifies human rights violations against transgender children. Pediatric GAC is a…

VIEWPOINT, January 28 2026 Joseph J. Amon Before its leadership and staff were gutted, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention provided technical assistance and disaster epidemiology training to state and local public health…

VIEWPOINT, 17 December 2025 Allan Maleche, Sharifah Sekalala, and Timothy Wafula On 4 December 2025, Kenya and the United States signed a health cooperation framework aimed at “guiding collaboration to eliminate HIV, malaria, TB, and other…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 23-26 PDF Tania Agosti, Andrea Baldwin, Susana T. Fried, Jaime M. Gher, Mariah Grant, Alice M. Miller, Mindy Jane Roseman, and Nerima Akinyi Were We write this viewpoint as…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 17-20, PDF Goran Zangana, Shokh Mohammad, Baxan Jamal, Azadeen M. Amin, Isis Elgibali, and Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Introduction In fragile and conflict-affected…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 13-16, PDF Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Jessica Peñaranda, and Alice M. Miller This viewpoint is a product of a long-standing set of coalitional academic-community projects,…

EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS, VIEWPOINT, Vol 27/2, 2025, pp. 9-12, PDF Dhananjay Kakade Introduction The Community-Based Monitoring and Planning (CBMP) initiative emerged in 2007 as a collaborative effort between the government of…

Speech to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2025 Joseph J. Amon My first thought when invited to speak at this American Public Health Association annual conference about current challenges in global health was of a…