Celebrating 115 Years of AJPH: Perspectives on Public Health in a New Political Era

Alfredo Morabia1, B Ethan Coston1, Paul Erwin1

  • 1Alfredo Morabia is AJPH editor in chief, and is with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York, and the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. B. Ethan Coston is with the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Paul Erwin is with the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Laura Ferguson is with the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Bisola Ojikutu is with the Boston Public Health Commission, the Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Wendy Parmet is with the School of Law and the Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Julian Santaella Tenorio is with the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia.

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