Frederica Perera, Dr.P.H., Ph.D., and Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D. The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum [oil], and natural gas) is the major source of both air pollution and the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The fetus, infant, and child…
Eugenia South, M.D., Atheendar Venkataramani, M.D., Ph.D., and George Dalembert, M.D. In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s “Black Wall Street,” a financially independent and vibrant community that had been built and sustained by Black Americans, became the site of one of the…
Eric Reinhart, M.D. In 1994, at 26 years of age, Dennis Wayne Hope was placed in solitary confinement in a Texas prison after he had escaped and remained free for 2 months. Until he was recently hospitalized, he had been…
Suhas Gondi, M.D., M.B.A., Karen Joynt Maddox, M.D., M.P.H., and Rishi K. Wadhera, M.D., M.P.P. The movement toward value-based payment has been a defining feature of U.S. health care reform during the past decade. Despite substantial enthusiasm and investment, however,…
