The development of public health began in ancient times. Health measures involved, for example, the quarantine of leprosy victims in the Middle Ages. Early international efforts in disease control ...

On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. As experts on the history of American ...

In 1881, after studying nearly a century of weather patterns, an Army meteorologist named John Park Finley came up with a simple way to understand when tornadoes were likely to happen—observing a ...

While the School of Public Health was not officially founded until 2013, public health has remained a pertinent topic since the University’s founding. On Monday, Associate Professor of Epidemiology ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the ...

As the field of public health tries to regain its footing, we must ask ourselves: What’s next for our field? What are our priorities? And, perhaps most important, do those priorities meet the most ...

The world was witness to one of the most amazing technological breakthroughs in the history of public health when we saw a vaccine created in record time to quell a pandemic that was raging across the ...