We need an expert council for public health
Why Germany lagged behind for a long time in matters of "public health", why countries like Great Britain test and sequence so much more - and why policy advice must finally be systematized in the pandemic: an interview with Charité Dean Axel Radlach Pries.
Mr. Pries, why is Public Health still so poorly positioned on the German biomedical research landscape?
I no longer believe this is the case. In the past ten years, there have been major advances in this field. It would however be correct to say that medicine in general has only recently begun focusing on global issues pertaining to health.
Why is this the case?
I feel that this development reflects long-term repercussions of the National Socialist era. Indeed, following this period of history, many physicians wanted to distance themselves completely from politics. The field of "Pure Science," focusing on basic research into physiological mechanisms and curative medicine was politically untarnished. As a result, it was long ignored that medicine always operates in a social and thus political environment, shaping health and healthcare policy in the process. However, this is increasingly changing. The German government's growing dedication to issues ...
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