Mo's Field Notes Issue 3 Trust Before Tools in Cancer Prevention Welcome back to the third issue of Mo's Field Notes. Subscribe Today is February 4th, marking World Cancer Day. I think it's usually framed around cures, breakthroughs, and heroic survivorship. All of that matters, of course. But prevention is a much quieter work. It lives upstream, in policies, environments, and trust. Cancer prevention is not solely about individual choices such as diet, exercise, or avoiding tobacco. It also...
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Mo's Field Notes Issue 2 Equity as Infrastructure Welcome back to the second issue of Mo's Field Notes. Subscribe Every January, institutions recommit to Dr. King with language about fairness and unity. However, Dr. King’s later work was not sentimental, but rather operational. He spoke about housing, wages, hospitals, and sanitation, as well as the material conditions that determine who lives longer and who does not. Justice, for him, was not an attitude. It was a system. That framing...
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Mo's Field Notes Issue 1 Tools to Uncover Hidden Health Systems Hello there! This is the first issue of my newsletter, Mo’s Field Notes. In this newsletter, my goal is to make public health easier to see, understand, and talk about. I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful. :-) Subscribe These notes aim to examine public health as it operates in everyday life: not as a job title or slogan, but as a set of systems that quietly shape what feels possible in a neighborhood, a clinic, or a school...
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