Building a National Public Health System in the United States

Margaret A Hamburg¹, Mandy Cohen¹, Karen DeSalvo¹+6

• ¹From the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health System, New York (M.A.H., M.C., K.D., J.G., J.K., D.L., E.M., H.P., N.R.S.); Aledade (M.C.) and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (J.G.), Bethesda, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (E.M.) - all in Maryland; Google, Mountain View (K.D.), and the Clinical Excellence Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto (N.R.S.) - both in California; CVS Health, Woonsocket, RI (J.K.); the Department of Medicine, University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, Tyler (D.L.); the Guttmacher Institute, Washington, DC (H.P.); and American Health Associates, Davie, FL (N.R.S.).