HeyJaredThe Healthiest Goldfish
Health is not healthcare. I write about the foundational forces that shape health.
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Ideas about Ideas: The limits of technocratic thinking (opens the original)
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This piece was co-authored by Nason Maani, and his version is cross-posted hereWe are largely rationalists. After all this essay—part of our ongoing Ideas about Ideas series—is being written from within universities where we spend our careers trying to understand data to identify fact. While we are both often working on social science contexts, our disciplinary training began in medicine and biomedical science, making us even more wedded to empirically grounded, expert-led, evidence-based analys
A purple public health: Incentives and the research we don’t do (opens the original)
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This piece was co-written by Dr Salma Abdalla and is also cross-posted hereWe all create our stories. Who we are and what we do are grounded in the foundational narratives that bring coherence to our day to day. Our work in public health is no exception. The foundational story of population health science and scholarship is that we work to advance health through the force of good ideas: the right questions rise, evidence accumulates, truth wins out. It is a flattering self-image. It is not, howe
Thinking and writing in the age of AI (opens the original)
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Before getting into today’s essay, a brief note about some events I will be doing related to the launch of my new book, Why Health? What We Need to Think About When We Think About Health. On September 24, I will join Jessica Steier, of <a href="https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_c
Thinking about, and with, AI (opens the original)
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Before jumping into the theme of today’s essay, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge, with appreciation, the reaction to last week’s announcement of the launch of my new book, Why Health? What We Need to Think About When We Think About Health. It has been a joy to encounter such enthusiasm for the book’s ideas and for having the conversation I long hoped it would help spark about shaping a new practi
Introducing Why Health? (opens the original)
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Why do we wish to be healthy? What is health for? What does it mean to pursue health in this moment, with the memory of COVID still fresh and public health facing political headwinds and a collapse in public trust?These questions have been central to my thinking over the past few years, as I have tried to reckon with this unstable time for public health. This post-pandemic moment—which I <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Covid-War-Investigative-Report/dp/1541703804/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TBA9W12L
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