public health Archives

Protecting patients’ health in the face of climate change

July 17, 2024

Protecting patient health resulting from climate change requires coordinated efforts from physicians, health systems, and communities. Learn how Permanente Medicine is tackling this challenge.

Podcast: The medical community’s role in promoting firearm safety

May 8, 2023

Physician experts Pavan Somusetty, MD, and Garen Wintemute, MD, join host Chris Grant to share their valuable perspectives on the public health crisis of gun violence.

Colin Cave, MD, on treating climate change as a public health crisis

October 18, 2022

Northwest Permanente physician leader Colin Cave, MD, talks about the actions physicians and health systems can take to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on public health, especially vulnerable communities.

Bechara Choucair, MD, and Stephen Parodi, MD discuss public health impacts of COVID-19

November 23, 2020

COVID-19 is the latest in a series of developments that have had a profound impact on public health, according to Kaiser Permanente physician leaders.

David Grossman, MD quoted in Annals of Emergency Medicine on the physician role in firearm safety

January 30, 2019

David Grossman, MD, senior associate medical director, Washington Permanente Medical Group, is among those quoted in the article looking at what can be done to prevent firearm injury.

David Grossman, MD, discusses clinical interventions for firearm injury at National Academies

November 16, 2018

Last month, Kaiser Permanente joined other health systems, hospitals, and health care professionals for a firearm injury and death prevention workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, DC.

Hunger as a vital sign

November 15, 2018

Permanente physicians are committed to addressing food insecurity for their patients and in the communities they serve, starting the sometimes difficult but important conversation that leads to total health.