Building Bridges to Fix Health Policy

摘要

A year ago, the APHA staff working group for the National Public Health Week (#NPHW) was more prescient than it could have suspected when it chose “building bridges” as its theme for 2021. Indeed, this year was born under both a good star and a bad star. The bad star is the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol, which was the culmination of four years of destruction of bridges and solidarities across and between states, geographic areas, and populations, in the country and globally, from the Paris Accord on climate change to the Muslim ban (https://am.ajph.link/FascistThreat). All of these are symbolized by building a wall between the United States and Mexico. Walls not bridges.