One Health Cannot Actually Succeed without Confronting Commercial Determinants of Health Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health One Health rests on a deceptively simple proposition: human health, animal health, and the health of our shared...
COVID-19 Is Not Over; It Has Simply Evolved: Why Vigilance Still Matters for People with Comorbidities Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health There is a growing narrative – subtle but pervasive – that COVID-19 is no longer something to worry...
Ebola Again: A Quarter-Century of Broken Promises Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health The Ebola outbreak unfolding across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is not merely another infectious disease emergency. It is another...
Healthy Homes, Healthier Cities: Reflections from the World Urban Forum Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health Cities are where humanity’s greatest challenges and greatest opportunities increasingly converge. More than half of the world’s...
AI Use in Medicine is Accelerating But Not Without Physician Concerns Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future concept in medicine; it is rapidly becoming part of everyday clinical practice. Results...
Reframing the Cure for Everything: Systems, Power, and the Future of Public Health Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health In The Cure for Everything, Dr. Michelle A. Williams, a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford...
Homophobia and Economic Hardship: How Both Shape Wellbeing Around the World Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health In the first global analysis of its kind, researchers have shed powerful new light on the everyday lived experience of sexual and...
When Public Health Becomes Politics: HHS Bases Autism Claim on Inconclusive Tylenol Studies Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health As a society, we entrust our public health institutions with an enormous responsibility: to ground policy and...
Stop Calling It a Health System If It Does Not Deliver on Health Equity Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health We have been told that health equity is something to aim for as an end goal after systems have done their work. But that thinking is...
Where the Air Is Not Equal: How Climate and Health Inequities Collide Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health No one is untouched in the unfolding climate crisis – but not everyone is affected equally. From blistering urban heatwaves to prolonged...
A Stark Reckoning: USAID’s Life-Saving Legacy and the Deadly Cost of Defunding Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health A recent study by Cavalcanti et al., published in The Lancet, offers an urgent, data-driven account of the past, present, and...
Writing the Next Chapter in Global Health: We Can Decide the Outcome Together Dr. Lieve Fransen, Member, Fast-Track Health Board of Advisors In these challenging times, silence is not an option. Health advocates globally, including Europe, must actively champion...
Heavy Lifting: Advancing the Global HIV Response in Uncertain Times Dr. Oni Blackstock, Member, Fast-Track Health Board of Advisors The global HIV response has made extraordinary progress over the past four decades. From reducing HIV-related deaths to expanding...
Fighting Disinformation and Advancing Public Health in a Fractured World Dr. José M. Zuniga, President/CEO, Fast-Track Health The history of pandemics and public health, as explored in a book I recently re-read, offers valuable lessons for confronting the...