Catherine Pirkle
Catherine Pirkle is an associate professor at the Office of Public Health Studies at UH Manoa. She is co-lead of the Healthy Hawaii Initiative Evaluation Team, which works in collaboration with the Hawaii Department of Health.
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Reporting On E-Cigarettes Should Include Health And Policy Experts
Hawaii鈥檚 successful tobacco control policies have caught the attention of the tobacco/electronic nicotine device industry.
Courtesy: Catherine Pirkle and David Delaney
Protecting And Preserving Our Oceans Is A Matter Of Public Health
More efforts are needed to understand how the livelihood of humans and the seas are intertwined.
Catherine Pirkle
Now Is The Wrong Time To Defund Public Health Infrastructure
The United States has been gutting public health for decades and we are all paying the price.
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The Public Is Not Alone In Behaving Badly
Blaming citizens for the current crisis obfuscates the responsibility of state and local leadership.
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Lessons From Another Pandemic
To properly combat COVID-19, it’s useful to recall how we addressed HIV/AIDS.
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A Health System Is More Than Just Hospitals
The workforce includes doctors and nurses but also staff from a variety of disciplines. They all need our support.