Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S., is University Distinguished Service Professor and Gilman Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University and dean emeritus of its Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the author of Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America, also published by Johns Hopkins; Vitamin A Deficiency: Health, Survival, and Vision; and Epidemiology and Statistics for the Ophthalmologist.
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Preface Chapter 1. Go Where the Problems Are Chapter 2. Get into the Field Chapter 3. Forget the Job Description Chapter 4. Don't Count on Things Staying the Same Chapter 5. Follow Most, but Not All, of the Rules Chapter 6. Collect Good Data-Even if You Don't Yet Know What Important Questions They May Answer Chapter 7. Remember Your Humanity Chapter 8. Use Data to Set Policy Chapter 9. If You Think You're Right, Keep Pushing Chapter 10. Take the Long View Epilogue
Sommer is deftly able to explore his field's big ideas by directly following ordinary human stories, which not only makes the lessons easy to understand but foregrounds the reasons why to do it in the first place. -- Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine Sommer's new memoir is also a gift to students-'Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders' is the subtitle-full of stories from a career spent in some of the poorest corners of the world, amid political upheaval and natural disasters. -- Dan Rodricks Baltimore Sun Alfred Sommer has now done exactly what we desire and written 10 Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders. Sommer combines the wisdom of going to where the problems are... with a discussion of the limitation of a job description... These aren't just lessons for public health. These are lessons for life. -- Bill Foege, Author of House on Fire Lancet