Eric Reinhart
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Chicago, IL, United States
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How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration
To make U.S. communities safe, lawmakers must end mass incarceration and build systems for violence prevention through helping communities → Read More
Fixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat
A classic warning in public health goes like this: "A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other → Read More
Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.
Public health requires seeing the world from a collective perspective, but US agencies are still dominated by doctors trained to work on an individual level. → Read More
Why Are In-Custody Deaths Surging at Houston’s Harris County Jail?
Worse than Rikers. → Read More
Biden's Plan for More Police Won't Make America Safer
President Biden is calling for billions in additional funding for police. Evidence shows more policing does not make communities safer, but expanding healthcare access does → Read More
Synthetic Drugs Are Sending the Overdose Crisis Into Overdrive
US policy is keeping public health officials, scientists, and emergency-room doctors in the dark about a growing manufactured plague. → Read More
There’s One Thing Republicans Get Right About Gun Control
Guns alone aren’t the problem. To truly be safe in America, we have to address growing public distrust. → Read More
Prison Reform Is Undermining Public Health and Safety
U.S. jails and prisons are caught in a spiral of abuse. Incremental reform is exacerbating the problem. → Read More
The Only Way to Fix the Federal Courts’ Fundamental Flaw
If we care about justice and democracy, the reality of law as a product of political struggle must be popularly embraced rather than repressed. → Read More
The Blind Spot in Medicare for All
If we adopt a single-payer structure without remaking the bureaucracy, we will perpetuate the perversity at the core of our medical system. → Read More
How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom
The president is doubling down on outdated “tough on crime” policies, funneling millions of dollars to states to spend on policing and new prisons → Read More
The public health case for decarcerating America’s prison system
The pandemic has illustrated how unsafe conditions in prisons boomerang back on the general population → Read More
The Public Health Case for Decarcerating America’s Prison System
Opinion | The pandemic has illustrated all too clearly how unsafe conditions in prisons boomerang back on the general population. → Read More
As Covid Surges Again, Decarceration Is More Necessary Than Ever
American jails and prisons have become increasingly deadly places. Lawmakers must stop putting off the real solution. → Read More