An Independent Public Health Service
By Rear Admiral Steve Solomon, MD, FACP, FIDSA, USPHS (ret.)Politics and science are often uneasy partners in the development and implementation of public health policy. During the past 60 years, politics has had an adverse impact on the role of [...]
Forging Leadership for Generations
By CAPT Rob Tosatto, USPHS (ret.) and RADM Steve Solomon, USPHS (ret.) The Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health (COF) celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020, and we will soon be releasing our Annual Report highlighting [...]
Crowdsourcing Public Health Advocacy Goals
Founded 20 years ago, the Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health supports educational, training, and research activities, with a special emphasis on the US Public Health Service and the USPHS Commissioned Corps. Among the Foundation’s strategic [...]
Constant, Consistent, Coordinated, and Confident
In its 2002 report Who Will Keep the Public Healthy, the Institute of Medicine wrote: “At no time in the history of this nation has the public health mission of promoting the public’s health and safety resonated more clearly [...]