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BPL Presents welcomes The New York Times Opinion Desk back to the library to discuss the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
With MAHA introducing new tensions into U.S. public health, reflecting competing priorities around policy, science, and individual choice, The New York Times Opinion journalists weigh in. David Wallace-Wells, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Alexandra Sifferlin will takethe stage at Central Library to discuss the MAHA movement’s implications for health, public trust, and society at large.
PARTICIPANTS:
Alexandra Sifferlin leads health and science coverage for New York Times Opinion. She is the author of “The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a New York Times Opinion columnist, a professor with the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at U.N.C. Chapel Hill and a 2020 MacArthur fellow. She is the author of two books, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy” and “Thick: And Other Essays.” “Thick” was the winner of the 2019 BPL Book Prize for non-fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2019.
David Wallace-Wells is a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for The New York Times magazine. He writes a weekly newsletter about climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it, and is the author of the international best-seller “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.”
BPL Presents welcomes The New York Times Opinion Desk back to the library to discuss the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
With MAHA introducing new tensions into U.S. public health, reflecting competing priorities around policy, science, and individual choice, The New York Times Opinion journalists weigh in. David Wallace-Wells, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Alexandra Sifferlin will takethe stage at Central Library to discuss the MAHA movement’s implications for health, public trust, and society at large.
PARTICIPANTS:
Alexandra Sifferlin leads health and science coverage for New York Times Opinion. She is the author of “The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a New York Times Opinion columnist, a professor with the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at U.N.C. Chapel Hill and a 2020 MacArthur fellow. She is the author of two books, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy” and “Thick: And Other Essays.” “Thick” was the winner of the 2019 BPL Book Prize for non-fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2019.
David Wallace-Wells is a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for The New York Times magazine. He writes a weekly newsletter about climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it, and is the author of the international best-seller “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.”
