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From the Dean's Desk

The monthly Dean's message to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and our community provides updates on the school, reflects on our school's mission, and offers a personal take on what we in public health—through both action and facts—can do to make our societies healthier and more equitable for all.

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  • Our Global Failure to Vaccinate

    9/29/2021 9:32:21 AM

    Dean Diez Roux writes about the allocation and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, which, like the pandemic itself, have illustrated with shocking clarity how the structures and systems in our society fail to achieve the values of equity and opportunity for all.

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  • Letter from Buenos Aires

    8/31/2021 8:22:00 AM

    Dean Diez Roux writes about the vibrancy of her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the challenges that the pandemic has highlighted in cities in Latin America and around the world: transportation, health care, enormous inequalities, and more.

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  • A Much Needed Summer Break

    6/28/2021 8:22:54 AM

    Dean Diez Roux shares reflections from the past academic year and her hope for everyone's summer: "This year more than ever we all need a time to rest, recover and re-energize."

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  • The Promise of Spring 2021

    5/26/2021 9:38:27 AM

    In this month's letter, Dean Diez Roux reflects on wrapping up an academic year like no other and the hope that this spring season has brought.

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  • A Week in My Work Life

    4/30/2021 10:35:00 AM

    What does a Dean of Public Health do all day? Here is a bit of my work life from last week… a rollercoaster but also rich and stimulating in so many ways.

    I am fortunate to do so many different things and work with so many talented people, staff, faculty, and students at Dornsife and colleagues from all over the world.

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  • Public Transportation as Public Health Policy

    3/30/2021 10:35:00 AM

    The decline of public transportation would be a terrible consequence of the pandemic, with many long-term adverse implications. But it does not have to be that way.

    Developing and sustaining public transportation systems is perhaps one of the most impactful policies we can implement to promote health and environmental sustainability, with major implications for promoting social and health equity.

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  • The Fundamental Social Causes of Vaccination Rates

    2/28/2021 10:35:00 AM

    Hopefully things will get better as more vaccine becomes available, but there is no doubt that inequities in access (and inequities in health) will persist unless we finally grapple with what the COVID-19 vaccine experience is telling us about our health care systems, our public health infrastructure, and our social and economic systems more broadly.

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