Introduction: Public Health and the Promise of Palestine

This introductory essay contextualizes the special collection of papers on the pandemic and seeks to map the terrain of extant public health research on Palestine and the Palestinians. In addition, it is a contribution in Palestine studies to a nascent yet propulsive conversation that has been accelerated by Covid-19 on the erasure of structures of violence, including those of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, within the discipline of epidemiology. Using public health as an analytic, this essay asks us to consider foundational questions that have long been sidelined in the public health discourse on Palestine, including the implications for health and health research of eliding ongoing settler colonialism. Rather than ignoring and reproducing their violence, this essay seeks to tackle these questions head-on in an attempt to imagine a future public health research agenda that centers health, and not simply survivability, for all Palestinians.

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Introduction: How Is the Growing Concern for Relevance and Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions Shaping the Public Health Research Agenda?

Annual Review of Public Health ◽

10.1146/annurev-pu-38-030717-100001 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. i-iii ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lawrence W. Green ◽

Ross C. Brownson ◽

Jonathan E. Fielding

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Evidence Based ◽

The Public

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Expanding the Public Health Research Agenda for Ovarian Cancer

Journal of Women s Health ◽

10.1089/jwh.2009.1622 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 1299-1305 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Katrina F. Trivers ◽

Sherri L. Stewart ◽

Lucy Peipins ◽

Sun Hee Rim ◽

Mary C. White

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Ovarian Cancer ◽

Health Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Public Health Research ◽

The Public

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Better Late Than Never?! Five Compelling Reasons for Putting Physical Activity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries High Up on the Public Health Research Agenda

Journal of Physical Activity and Health ◽

10.1123/jpah.2021-0576 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Katja Siefken ◽

Andrea Varela Ramirez ◽

Temo Waqanivalu ◽

Nico Schulenkorf

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Health Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Noncommunicable Diseases ◽

Middle Income ◽

The Public ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

Low And Middle Income

Since 2020, the world has been navigating an epidemiologic transition with both infectious diseases (COVID-19) and noncommunicable diseases intertwined in complex and diverse ways. In fact, the pandemics of physical inactivity, noncommunicable diseases, and COVID-19 coincide in a tragically impactful ménage à trois with their detrimental long-term health consequences yet to be determined. We know that people in low- and middle-income countries not only have the highest risk of developing chronic diseases, they also develop the diseases at a younger age, they suffer longer, and they die earlier than people in high-income countries. This commentary features 5 compelling reasons for putting physical activity in low- and middle-income countries high up on the public health research agenda and calls for more commitment to inclusive and context-specific public health practices that are paired with locally relevant promotion and facilitation of PA practice, research, and policymaking.

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