Dr. Sandro Galea
Thrive Global
United States
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On the Necessity and Persistence of Hope
Even at a difficult moment, there is much cause for hope in the new year. → Read More
On resisting scientific groupthink
Shaping a healthier world means being able to think for ourselves → Read More
What Women’s Soccer Can Teach Us About Health
A lesson about our well-being from the history of the game. → Read More
A Playbook For a Healthier World
On balancing the moral and empirical case for health → Read More
Three Ways Politics Can Make Us Healthier
Politics can support health by broadening access to assets, opportunity, and dignity. → Read More
Tradeoffs, inequality, social media, and division: what we have learned from COVID-19
Reflections on what we have learned one year into the COVID-19 pandemic → Read More
Navigating fear during COVID-19
Are there steps we can take to appropriately mitigate fear? → Read More
Vaccines can give older adults their lives back — we should let them
It is cruel to lockdown long-term care homes where all the residents and staff have been vaccinated. By keeping them under lockdown because we are wor... → Read More
Public health and the progressive project
To unite people around the common goal of health could help end the sickness of which we have seen so much. → Read More
When Radical Answers Are Not the Right Solution
Do our ideas reflect the world as it is, or merely as we theorize it to be? → Read More
Income inequality drives health disparities
Pretax incomes for the poorest 50% of Americans have stayed mostly unchanged for the past 40 years, widening income gaps in the country. We leave the Pretax incomes for the poorest 50% of Americans have stayed mostly unchanged for the past 40 years, widening income gaps in the country. We leave the question of why inequality matters for the economy to others. → Read More
Anxiety as a Public Health Issue
Understanding and mitigating the mass trauma of Covid-19 → Read More
4 lessons from the coronavirus outbreak
Boston University School of Public Health dean Sandro Galea shares four critical lessons from the coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreak. → Read More
The Poor and Marginalized Will Be the Hardest Hit by Coronavirus
We need to rethink our public health strategies before the next outbreak—even if the conversations are uncomfortable → Read More
Scapegoating in the time of coronavirus
A reflection on scapegoating and discrimination in the time of coronavirus. → Read More
It Is Time to Think Differently About Health
Health isn't just a fundamental part of human life - it must be recognized as a public good worthy of investment, says Sandro Galea. → Read More
We need a national conversation about health — not just about health care
Instead of investing primarily in treatments for illness, we should also be investing in what shapes health and create the conditions for all to be well. → Read More
A Wall from Mexico to New Zealand
Hate, which can fuel mass shootings and violence, has a distinct effect on mental health and public health at large, writes Sandro Galea. → Read More
The Case for a 'Health New Deal'
Sandro Galea writes that a national "Health New Deal" effort akin to a Green New Deal would help spur widespread policy changes. → Read More
What the Recent—and Maybe Future—Shutdown Teaches Us About Wealth in the U.S.
Wealth inequality has a direct line to health inequality. → Read More