Dr. John R. Finnegan

It has far reaching consequences, some of which I probably haven't even touched on here.

Food insecurity would be another area that's affecting so many people.

And that's the situation that we're in right now.

And I think we certainly don't wanna see it get worse.

We wanna see this situation improve in some way.

And that's what I think we have to grapple with those of us that are in the professional medical and the professional public health

in any wing of the health professions.

We really need to sit down and figure out what's next.

How are we going to be able to deal with this and improve this situation?

Yeah, it's sort of out of sight, out of mind is the mechanism.

And I think that there's a certain amount of that.

You know, I've been working in public health since 1980, and that was one of the first things I learned.

is that there's so much of the public that doesn't understand what public health affects or changes or supports.

And

And the reality is the reason, part of the reason I got into public health was because of community partnerships that were going on for the prevention of heart disease and things of that kind.

And the people that were running those out of the University of Minnesota recognized that, hey, communication is going to play an enormous role in this whole thing.

Now, this is in the analog days.

It's long before we had that.

the digital communication we have today.

But they realized that it was extraordinarily important that you get out there and actively talk about prevention and promotion of healthy activities and so forth.