By Leslie E. Wolf
With our recent (and continuing) experience of the devastating COVID-19 global pandemic, one might think that our collective appreciation for public health efforts and the people advancing those efforts would be high. Instead, public health officials have been vilified and attacked, and public health laws have been weakened, leaving us vulnerable to the next public health emergency.
So, how do we move forward? An essential first step is to refocus on the “public” in public health. Public health efforts and public health law depend on community support.
