- Public health saved your life today, but you didn't even know it.

Public health has almost always been invisible.

Then you have a pandemic, and in the pandemic that invisibility is gone and it's not coming back.

We need to tell the story of public health.

- Public health has been protecting us since the Black Death.

- There was a time when you went to work it wasn't clear if you were gonna come home from work.

- Two centuries ago, a third of your kids were likely to die in childhood.

Now, childhood is the safest time of your life.

- Many health problems really can only be improved through public policy.

- Clean water, breathable air, healthy food.

These are protections that are made for all of us.

- Public health is my calling.

It's a call to humanity and a call to service.

- In the last century, we gained 30 years of life expectancy due to public health.

- To me, extending our lives is the most impressive thing that we have ever done as a species.

- If everything's working well, nobody thinks about public health.

- We only fund when there's an emergency.

- We have an invisibility crisis in public health, and it impacts our ability to be appropriately resourced.

- I'm really worried that any pandemic can just, because we have not yet prepared.

- Public health has been undervalued, underfunded, and misunderstood, and that hurts our health.

- In 2017, we began to see a decline in life expectancy.

That is a bad sign for our society.

- Public health is like the foundation of your house, and let me tell you, ours is cracked.

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