Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308315
Deborah K Padgett
{"title":"Homeownership as a Determinant of Health: A Broader Consideration of Housing and Homelessness Amid Current Challenges.","authors":"Deborah K Padgett","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"1 1","pages":"29-30"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308303
Patrick J A Kelly,Sarah Bauerle Bass
{"title":"\"What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate\": The Need for Crisis Communication Skills Training in Public Health Graduate Programs.","authors":"Patrick J A Kelly,Sarah Bauerle Bass","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"139 1","pages":"74-78"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308308
Ty D McCaffrey,Colby Bland,Leah Merchant,Lisa Richidt,Mark Wamsley,Laura Williamson
{"title":"The Need to Invest in Infrastructure and Partnerships to Achieve Complete Public Health Data.","authors":"Ty D McCaffrey,Colby Bland,Leah Merchant,Lisa Richidt,Mark Wamsley,Laura Williamson","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"26 1","pages":"12-13"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308326
Kenneth Rochel de Camargo
{"title":"Public Health, Science, and the Public's Trust.","authors":"Kenneth Rochel de Camargo","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"7 1","pages":"38-41"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308327
Brian C Castrucci,Jessica Malaty Rivera,Amanda Kwong
{"title":"Freedom, Fairness, and Trust: Speaking the Language of Public Health Across the Political Divide.","authors":"Brian C Castrucci,Jessica Malaty Rivera,Amanda Kwong","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"13 1","pages":"70-73"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308328
Nabarun Dasgupta,Jennifer D Schoendorf,Denys T Lau,Lorna Thorpe
{"title":"Public Trust, Private Data: Four Considerations for the Future of Health.","authors":"Nabarun Dasgupta,Jennifer D Schoendorf,Denys T Lau,Lorna Thorpe","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"6 1","pages":"57-61"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308338
Nicholas Chartres,Tracey J Woodruff,Lisa A Bero
{"title":"Restoring Trust in Public Health by Preventing Financial Conflicts of Interest in the Scientific Literature and Government Decision-Making.","authors":"Nicholas Chartres,Tracey J Woodruff,Lisa A Bero","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"31 1","pages":"62-66"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308309
Caitlin A Contag,Zachary T Renfro,Adi Xiyal Mukund,Meg Quint,Shannon Amitin,Vivian Levy,Phillip L Hammack,Benjamin A Pinsky,Benjamin Laniakea
The 2022 global outbreak of clade IIb mpox disproportionately impacted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities and highlighted issues of stigma, access to health care, and health care‒associated trauma. Together with LGBTQ+ community partners, our research team implemented venue-based mpox virus and antibody testing. In response to feedback from our community partners, this effort evolved to include broader elements of sexual health services, including distribution of prescriptions for doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 18, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308309).
{"title":"A Venue-Based Approach to Asymptomatic Mpox Screening and Doxy-PEP Provision: From Outbreak to Outreach, San Francisco, California, 2023‒2024.","authors":"Caitlin A Contag,Zachary T Renfro,Adi Xiyal Mukund,Meg Quint,Shannon Amitin,Vivian Levy,Phillip L Hammack,Benjamin A Pinsky,Benjamin Laniakea","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308309","url":null,"abstract":"The 2022 global outbreak of clade IIb mpox disproportionately impacted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities and highlighted issues of stigma, access to health care, and health care‒associated trauma. Together with LGBTQ+ community partners, our research team implemented venue-based mpox virus and antibody testing. In response to feedback from our community partners, this effort evolved to include broader elements of sexual health services, including distribution of prescriptions for doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 18, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308309).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"20 1","pages":"e1-e5"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145777428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308322
Kim F Rhoads,Eva N Pardo,Salustiano Ribeiro,Ghilamichael Andemeskel,Monique LeSarre,Noha Aboelata,Lisa M Tealer,Damon Francis,Zhonnet Harper,Kala M Mehta,Jonathan D Fuchs,Kimi Watkins-Tartt
Umoja Health (UH) is a community-led approach to address long-standing disparities in health. UH was founded in 2020 at the request of members of the University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center Community Advisory Board. UH started with a focus on COVID-19 testing in San Francisco Bay Area Black/African American communities and evolved to address chronic disease and cancer in diverse communities. We detail UH's approach to addressing the separation between public health and health care, highlighting the coalition's effects on local health equity. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 18, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308322).
{"title":"Umoja Health: Building Community Coalitions to Achieve Health Equity From COVID-19 to Cancer.","authors":"Kim F Rhoads,Eva N Pardo,Salustiano Ribeiro,Ghilamichael Andemeskel,Monique LeSarre,Noha Aboelata,Lisa M Tealer,Damon Francis,Zhonnet Harper,Kala M Mehta,Jonathan D Fuchs,Kimi Watkins-Tartt","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308322","url":null,"abstract":"Umoja Health (UH) is a community-led approach to address long-standing disparities in health. UH was founded in 2020 at the request of members of the University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center Community Advisory Board. UH started with a focus on COVID-19 testing in San Francisco Bay Area Black/African American communities and evolved to address chronic disease and cancer in diverse communities. We detail UH's approach to addressing the separation between public health and health care, highlighting the coalition's effects on local health equity. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 18, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308322).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"21 1","pages":"e1-e5"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145777427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2025.308313
Hyemin Lee,Tara R Sullivan,Jessica R Abramson,Peter S McCauley,Ryan J Watson,Ethan H Mereish
Objectives. To examine the associations between state-level structural cissexism and both mental health and unmet mental health care needs among a large national sample of gender-diverse adolescents (GDAs). Methods. We measured structural cissexism by using a composite index of state-level indicators, including antitransgender laws and policies and explicit cissexist attitudes. Using participants' state identifiers, we linked this measure to individual-level mental health data from a subsample of 5658 GDAs (aged 13-18 years; mean age = 15.8 years; SD = 1.5) from the LGBTQ National Teen Survey conducted in 2022. Results. GDAs in states with higher levels of structural cissexism reported greater depression and anxiety symptoms compared with those in states with lower levels. In addition, compared with GDAs in states with lower structural cissexism, those in states with higher structural cissexism were more likely to report unmet mental health care needs. Conclusions. Our findings demonstrate significant associations between structural cissexism and mental health and health care utilization among GDAs. These results underscore the urgent need for transgender-affirming and protective policies and multidimensional and multilevel interventions across social environments to support GDA well-being and ensure equitable access to mental health services. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 11, 2025:e1-e11. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308313).
{"title":"Structural Cissexism, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Care Needs Among Gender-Diverse Adolescents in the United States.","authors":"Hyemin Lee,Tara R Sullivan,Jessica R Abramson,Peter S McCauley,Ryan J Watson,Ethan H Mereish","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308313","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. To examine the associations between state-level structural cissexism and both mental health and unmet mental health care needs among a large national sample of gender-diverse adolescents (GDAs). Methods. We measured structural cissexism by using a composite index of state-level indicators, including antitransgender laws and policies and explicit cissexist attitudes. Using participants' state identifiers, we linked this measure to individual-level mental health data from a subsample of 5658 GDAs (aged 13-18 years; mean age = 15.8 years; SD = 1.5) from the LGBTQ National Teen Survey conducted in 2022. Results. GDAs in states with higher levels of structural cissexism reported greater depression and anxiety symptoms compared with those in states with lower levels. In addition, compared with GDAs in states with lower structural cissexism, those in states with higher structural cissexism were more likely to report unmet mental health care needs. Conclusions. Our findings demonstrate significant associations between structural cissexism and mental health and health care utilization among GDAs. These results underscore the urgent need for transgender-affirming and protective policies and multidimensional and multilevel interventions across social environments to support GDA well-being and ensure equitable access to mental health services. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 11, 2025:e1-e11. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308313).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"9 1","pages":"e1-e11"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145728394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}