News & Peer-Reviewed Articles
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In their May 2023 opinion piece, Moyo et al. analyze two decades of emerging infectious disease outbreaks across Sub-Saharan Africa, noting that between 2001 and 2022 the region experienced around 1,800 public health emergencies—particularly zoonotic diseases such as Ebola, dengue, and monkeypox. 

They identify drivers like climate change, urbanization, wildlife habitat loss, and weak health systems (including low funding, workforce shortages, and limited surveillance capabilities). As solutions, the authors advocate for a One Health framework—enhancing collaboration across human, animal, and environmental health sectors—plus investments in disease surveillance, laboratory networks, health information systems, and workforce training, including leveraging digital tools and AI for early outbreak detection 

Agricultural shifts—particularly an aging global population—are prompting a paradigm shift in healthcare, moving from disease treatment toward prevention. The article highlights how digital health technologies (e.g., AI, wearables, telemedicine) are transforming preventive medicine by enabling early disease detection, personalized risk profiling, and proactive care strategies. It emphasizes the role of integrated data systems and predictive analytics in facilitating timely interventions and improving population health outcomes.

Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on April 23, 2025, the opinion piece by Trinh, Skoll & Saxon explores how consumer-facing health technologies—such as smartphones, wearables, and home monitoring sensors—are ushering in a new era of Health Care 2025. The authors argue these tools empower patients, enable continuous data collection, and support preventive care models. They advocate for integrating such digital devices into mainstream healthcare to improve disease detection, patient engagement, and personalized care delivery

The article emphasizes the enduring importance of community engagement in chronic disease prevention, tracing its roots from CDC's 1997 “Principles of Community Engagement” through the 2025 third edition, which introduced trustworthiness as a key principle. 

It highlights the evolution of community engagement from outreach to shared leadership, supported by a conceptual model from the National Academy of Medicine that links engagement to improved health equity and system transformation.

Through examples—from HPV outreach to obesity prevention and programs in St. Louis’s Promise Zone—it showcases how community-driven partnerships enhance program design, resilience, and sustainability. The editorial concludes by urging public health practitioners to build genuine, equitable partnerships rooted in community voice to achieve lasting population health improvements

Public health professionals are urged to embrace advocacy as a central strategy for advancing health equity by targeting upstream factors—such as laws, regulations, institutional practices, product standards, and pricing—that profoundly influence people’s health and the environments in which they live. Through this approach, advocacy becomes a powerful tool to address the social determinants of health, aligning with core principles from landmark frameworks like the Ottawa Charter. Ultimately, the article calls on public health practitioners to champion equitable change across policy and institutional spheres to create healthier, fairer societies.

Offers a call to action for people to join the Generation Public Health movement in creating the healthiest nation in one generation. It includes infographics which explain the social and environmental factors that impact our health and urges people to be advocates for health by acting locally and nationally, such as reaching out to local PTA, promoting wellness in the workplace, and sending letters to Congress. Finally, it recommends using social media to spread awareness about the challenges facing our health and how to improve it.