Highlights: Getting Well in Europe and America
This presentation by Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, is excerpted from an April 14, 2020 webinar entitled “Getting Well in Europe and America: Transatlantic Perspectives.” The subject of the webinar – which also featured Scott Greer, Professor of Health Management and Policy, Global and Public Health, and Political Science at the University of Michigan — was Galea’s 2019 book, “Well: What We Talk about When We Talk about Health.” A lively discussion followed the presentations by Galea and Greer that also included Profs. Alya Guseva and Joe Harris from BU’s Department of Sociology.
In his presentation, Sandro Galea shows how the country’s failing health is a product of America’s peculiar history and character, and proposes a structural rethinking of American health policies.
Scott Greer’s response, based on his vast knowledge of the politics and policies of health in the EU and in several European nations, will be published in Boston University’s International Law Journal. We will update this description once the text is available online.