My adventures in war and public health

Amy Hagopian is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Her academic work has focused on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. She led a study estimating the war-related mortality for Iraq in 2011 and taught for nine years a class on war and health. She’s served as chair of the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health and is now chair of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association