Here are several benefits and reasons why breastfeeding is a public health issue: Nutritional advantages: Breast milk is the ...

The public-health profession can go on pretending it knows how to cure every social ill, but it will never earn back the public’s respect unless it returns to its original principles.

Careers in public health and community health give compassionate, results-driven people a chance to improve others’ health and well-being through systemic changes and advocacy. Plus, many jobs ...

To understand how the public health establishment has fallen, and what might be done to redeem it, one needn’t look far back. While the Trump administration may have created a new level of ...

Public-health authorities should also be louder and more explicit about the next steps, giving us guidelines for when we can expect easing in rules for public behavior as well.

Getty Images. Graduates with degrees in public health can find work with federal agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. military.