A Public Health of Consequence: Review of the June 2016 Issue of AJPH

Affiliations

¹ Sandro Galea is Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger Vaughan is an AJPH editor, and is also the Vice Dean and Professor of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Editorial

Sandro Galea et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Jun.

. 2016 Jun;106(6):973-4.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303230.

¹ Sandro Galea is Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger Vaughan is an AJPH editor, and is also the Vice Dean and Professor of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

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Comment on

Causal Impact: Epidemiological Approaches for a Public Health of Consequence.
Westreich D, Edwards JK, Rogawski ET, Hudgens MG, Stuart EA, Cole SR. Westreich D, et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Jun;106(6):1011-2. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303226. Am J Public Health. 2016. PMID: 27153017 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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