This year’s public health crises—the coronavirus pandemic and endemic police violence—have shone a harsh light on historical inequities in the United States, prompting calls for new ways to guarantee the health, safety, and well-being of all Americans. Historically, attention to public health has waxed and waned as crises strike and then abate. The result has been a patchwork of inadequate public health infrastructure, the weaknesses of which are evident in the United…

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