Destruction of Public Health and the Environment in Wars in Gaza and Beyond: What Must be Done

Editorial

. 2025 Jul;115(7):1050-1052.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308175.

Affiliations

¹ Leonard Rubenstein is Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Baltimore, MD, and author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care From the Violence of War.

Editorial

Leonard Rubenstein. Am J Public Health. 2025 Jul.

. 2025 Jul;115(7):1050-1052.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308175.

¹ Leonard Rubenstein is Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Baltimore, MD, and author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care From the Violence of War.

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