Prevention is built into so many aspects of our lives, from coffee cup lids to seatbelts. However, many of these life-saving innovations were historically met with extreme public and professional resistance. Our expert explores “preventioneers” – the people who defied taboo and skepticism to transform how we protect ourselves from disease and disaster.
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- Dr. Barry Davis, professor emeritus, University of Texas School of Public Health, author, The Preventioneers
One of the biggest obstacles to creating prevention policy is that the success is invisible. Once a problem is solved, the next generation is quick to forget what life was like before specific programs were put in place. Dr. Barry Davis says we can clearly see this cycle happen with vaccines…
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