David Katz Healthcare Expert

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM, is the Founding Director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, and former President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 15 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both preventive medicine, and nutrition. He has made important contributions in the areas of lifestyle interventions for health promotion; nutrient profiling; behavior modification; holistic care; and evidence-based medicine. David earned his BA degree from Dartmouth College (1984); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed sequential residency training in Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He is a two-time diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He has received two Honorary Doctorates.

 
Mathematics: The Ultimate Pandemic Reality Check

Mathematics: The Ultimate Pandemic Reality Check

The combination of initial forays back to the world, work, and notably schools; plus far more testing than we did at the start of the pandemic, produces one inevitable result: surges in case counts everywhere the population wasn’t uniformly exposed already. Is this bad, and if so- how bad? Is it in some way good? Or, is it something in between?

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COVID, Colleges, Case Counts, and Complications: Epidemiology 101, or Drama 101?

COVID, Colleges, Case Counts, and Complications: Epidemiology 101, or Drama 101?

You have no doubt heard the news that as universities reconvene students on campuses around the country, there are flares in COVID case counts. 

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Herd Immunity, Herd Mentality, and Heresy: Debating Pandemic Policy in a Public Health House of Cards

Herd Immunity, Herd Mentality, and Heresy: Debating Pandemic Policy in a Public Health House of Cards

An important new study in the New England Journal of Medicine had a primary objective of determining the nature of durability of antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2. 

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SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection: Bad News, or Good?

SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection: Bad News, or Good?

Our disparate inclinations famously refract the same view into opposing perceptions: a glass half full, or half empty. 

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Diet and COVID-19, Where Vital Meets Urgent

Diet and COVID-19, Where Vital Meets Urgent

Roughly two weeks ago, the American Heart Association told the world that diet should be assessed routinely in clinical encounters, and that new tools were needed to make this possible.

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