Population Health: The Big Picture
Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.
From the Hill
From the Hill – Spring 2005
Bush budget would cut most R&D programs On February 7, President Bush released his proposed budget for FY 2006. Against a backdrop of record-breaking federal budget deficits, a continuing and costly war… Read More
Perspectives
The View from California
If what is happening in California is a leading indicator, and it usually is, many critical science and technology (S&T) policy debates are migrating from Washington to state capitals and even to… Read More
Features
Archives – Spring 2005
Albert Einstein Memorial Statue, Copyright 1978 by Robert Berks Albert Einstein One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein received his doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich and quickly made an indelible… Read MoreCartoon – Spring 2005
“Don’t give me any of this healthy body mass index nonsense. I say you’re scrawny.”… Read MoreLaw and the Public’s Health
Public health law is experiencing a renaissance. Once fashionable during the Industrial and Progressive eras, the ideals of population health began to wither in the late 20th century. In their place came… Read MorePeaking Oil Production: Sooner Rather Than Later?
World demand for oil continues to increase, but Earth’s endowment of oil is finite. Accordingly, geologists know that at some future date, conventional oil supply will no longer be capable of satisfying… Read MoreInterview: Sarah S. Brown
Sarah S. Brown is director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative she helped created in 1996 to improve the wellbeing of children, youth, and families by… Read MoreHealthy Populations Nurture Healthy People
The fall 2004 decision by NBC to introduce a new TV program dramatizing the fight against emerging disease threats might be taken as a sign of rising glamour for the public health… Read MorePreventing Childhood Obesity
After improving dramatically during the past century, the health of children and youth in the United States now faces a dangerous setback: an epidemic of obesity. It is occurring in boys and… Read MoreA Second Look at Nuclear Power
For more than three decades, energy policies in the United States and much of the Western world have been held in the ideological grip of a flawed concept: the notion that we… Read MoreGenomics and Public Health
Breakthroughs in biology are changing our world. Just as chemistry and physics had broad ramifications in the preceding centuries, the New Biology unleashed by the Human Genome Project and associated developments will… Read MoreSyndromic Surveillance
Heightened awareness of the risks of bioterrorism since 9/11 coupled with a growing concern about naturally emerging and reemerging diseases such as West Nile, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and pandemic influenza… Read More
Real Numbers
Real Numbers
With prospects for economic growth improving across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region, renewed attention is being directed to ways of tapping into science, technology, and innovation to achieve… Read More
Book Reviews
Copyright reconsidered
Digitization is reshaping industries that are based on copyright, such as music, movies, books, and journals. Although the ramifications of digitization are widespread, the main focus of current interest is in industries… Read More
Bioweapons
“The age of bioterrorism is now,” the Washington Post said in January 2005. Many politicians, policymakers, and scientists agree, and so billions of dollars are being spent on biodefense R&D. A dramatic… Read More
Tilting at warheads
During the past decade, arms control has fallen on hard times. The decline began during the Clinton administration, when the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was abolished and its functions absorbed into… Read MoreBook Review: Commercializing the university
Commercializing the university Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education, by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 424 pp. Robert Zemsky… Read More