Pushed to the Limit
by CAPT Lisa Tonrey, USPHS (ret.) and RADM Steve Solomon, USPHS (ret.) The last two years of a pandemic, natural disasters, and humanitarian responses have pushed to the limit the capacity of the entire public health system, which has been [...]
Rebuilding Public Health Infrastructure
By Rear Admiral Steve Solomon, MD, FACP, FIDSA, USPHS (ret.) This issue of Frontline contains the first half of an interview we were privileged to conduct with Harvey Alter, MD, retired USPHS officer, NIH scientist and recipient of the 2020 [...]
Cutting Through the Noise
By Rear Admiral Steve Solomon, MD, FACP, FIDSA, USPHS (ret.) Numerous reports over many years have documented a lack of funding as a vulnerability that could lead to a public health crisis in the United States. As we hope [...]
Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard
By Retired Rear Admiral Steve Solomon, MD, FACP, FIDSA, USPHS On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that his administration was committed to “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely [...]
Calling Retired Officers to Engage with COF
by Rear Admiral Steve Solomon, MD, FACP, FIDSA, USPHS (ret.) Active duty officers have already completed over 9,000 deployments during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating their commitment and dedication to the nation’s health every day. In addition, there are thousands of [...]
Reimagining Public Health
There are many heroes of the pandemic, and they are the workers on the front lines of public health and clinical care who have in many cases been fighting this battle for over a year and a half with [...]