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How Public Health Transformed Human Life

For National Public Health Week, Dr. Howard Forman surveys two centuries of interventions that together doubled human life expectancy, a triumph of science, policy, and collective action.

A vintage drawing of the construction of the London sewer system
  • Hospital management in Ethiopia

    In a country with some 76 million people and only 138 hospitals, Ethiopia is looking to make the most of limited resources by working with Yale and the Clinton Foundation to train hospital administrators.

  • Listening to patients and staff

    A large physicians’ group practice in Massachusetts is improving the experience of patients and staff by breaking down the organizational hierarchy and encouraging process improvement from the bottom up.

  • Making healthcare accountable

    Sostena Romano sees herself as responsible for producing results for both stakeholders and shareholders in the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS initiative.

  • Would you rather be treated as a patient or a customer?