by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM
As pointed out by JPHMP author, Brenda Stevenson Marshall, about the ACA, a change in America’s leadership and resulting public health policies represents a “natural experiment,” one that we as public health scientists and practitioners must observe, document, and evaluate. This must be done with transparency, rigor, and vigilance, not only because assessment and assurance are in our job description, but because it is the price of human decency.
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Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS, FACSM, is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and an Associate Professor in the Department of Implementation Science of the Wake Forest School of Medicine at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Follow him at Twitter and Instagram. [Full Bio]
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