This is just to document how much of a geek I really am. Today, while flipping through the chapter on qualitative data analysis in Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, my heart actually started beating faster. Yep, in anticipation of learning how to properly analyze qualitative data. Somehow during grad school, …
Tag: Public Health
A Great Loss
On Sunday, the world lost one of its most fearless leaders in global public health. Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University for over two decades, succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) after a three-year battle. So much has already been written in tribute to Dr. Rosenfield that …
Random Friday (again)
Apparently Good Friday is not a popular day at the gym, so my workout tonight was luxuriously empty. And after a stressful work week, I felt so good running that I cracked my first smile of the day on the treadmill. Good thing I’m smiling, because next week I’m running in a 10K. Although I …
Money & Health
Many people are familiar with the disproportionate disease burden that the poorer countries of the world bear. But just so you can get a more vivid picture, here is a map by Worldmapper that represents the proportion of adults that are HIV+ by country: And here is the tuberculosis burden: And now let’s take a …