We Must Save Ourselves From the Public Health Professionals

We Must Save Ourselves From the Public Health Professionals
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David Bell
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Like other aspects of medicine, public health is about dealing with life and death. In the international sphere, this involves big numbers. If, as a group, a few million dollars is allocated here, it may save thousands of lives—actual people living rather than dying, or grieving. If it’s allocated there, it may even promote death—diverting other resources from a more useful approach or causing direct harm.

David Bell
David Bell
Author
David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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