{"id":244289,"date":"2026-04-21T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=244289&preview=true&preview_id=244289"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:16:14","slug":"healthy-rounds-the-silent-success-of-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/04\/healthy-rounds-the-silent-success-of-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Healthy Rounds\u2019: The Silent Success of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Anthony Alessi\u2019s \u201cHealthy Rounds\u201d radio program is now a UConn Health podcast<\/a>. (Tina Encarnacion\/ UConn Health photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s impossible to definitively measure how many lives were saved or prolonged, or how much illness or disease prevented or made less severe, as a direct result of public health initiatives.\u00a0Douglas Brugge<\/a>, chair of the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s\u00a0Department of Public Health Sciences<\/a>, joins\u00a0Dr. Anthony Alessi<\/a>\u00a0to explain the \u201cinvisible\u201d benefits of things like policies that regulate toxins in our water or pollution in our air, and discuss how COVID changed the perception of public health (and lessons learned from that).<\/p>\n

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If you don\u2019t get cancer or don\u2019t have a heart attack because someone… regulated toxins in the drinking water, or in my field, the pollution in the air, it\u2019s invisible. You just don\u2019t know that it happens. — Douglas Brugge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen now:<\/h3>\n