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  NOVEMBER 28, 2008
SCHOOL NEWS
Washington SPHCM Faculty Pen Op-Ed on Bailouts and the Public’s Health

Two University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine faculty—Dr. Scott Barnhart, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and associate dean in the School of Medicine; and Dr. Amy Hagopian, acting assistant professor of health services, have penned an op-ed for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which discusses the impact of the debt crisis on the public’s health.

In the article, Drs. Barnhart and Hagopian state the current bailouts are as "dramatic as a pandemic of influenza," and argue "…the financial cost of government bailouts of unregulated corporate excess could cause even more death than a pandemic flu."

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