How COVID-19 could prompt a public service renaissance

Article by Roderick Bremby.

As a former state public health official, watching the reactions of governors and mayors across the country to the global coronavirus pandemic is familiar.

Earlier in my career as secretary for health and environment in Kansas, I led the public health agency that worked to prepare the state for novel diseases, beginning with the SARS scare in 2003. In 2009, when H1N1 began to spread, state, local, and federal government responses sprang into action to coordinate surveillance and containment. I helped to lead Kansas’ response to this emerging threat.

The lessons of that experience are instructive as we face an even greater threat in COVID-19. […]

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