Public Health is Political

From the Editors

We met in a public health advocacy class, bonding over long car rides filled with conversations about the need to politicize public health in our classrooms. Our need to draw connections between health and power deepened during a period of heightened university activism and mobilization. Simultaneously, so did our frustration from watching traditional public health institutions retreat from their responsibilities, showing indifference to violence, and paralyzed by fear of being “too political.”

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