‘We, as a society, should be outraged’: a conversation about public health
Leading figures in health and medicine sound an alarm about growing disparities between rich and poor, lack of scientific literacy in the public, and more.
STAT’s flagship newsletter has been getting readers ahead of the day’s health news for two years — and to celebrate, we convened a group of experts in the Boston area to talk about the most pressing issues in health and medicine.
Our panel: Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health; Kate Walsh, president and CEO of Boston Medical Center; Mary Tolikas, engineer and operations director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard; and Dr. Harris Berman, dean of Tufts University School of Medicine.
The following excerpts have been lightly edited and grouped
