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The editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Their names would be immediately recognizable to many in the public health community. They prefer to keep their online and public lives separate to allow maximum freedom of expression.

Swine flu produces a good settlement for hospitals and workers
By Effect Measure | 06:51 pm | November 04, 2009
It's being described as a "dramatic settlement" that will set a pattern for the nation. The agreement reached yesterday by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and hospital player Catholic Healthcare West sounds like just what the doctor ordered.
Swine flu and ICU bed use in Canada and Mexico
By Effect Measure | 01:38 pm | October 13, 2009
The online publication of three papers and a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association provides some further data on what demand for critical care resources might be from the current swine flu pandemic.
Public health surveillance: America the backward
By Effect Measure | 11:47 am | September 28, 2009
A good story by the AP's Lauran Neergaard on Sunday highlighted the need for better public health surveillance and the efforts being made to improve it so as to keep track of possible rare side effects from the swine flu vaccine.
Flu, handwashing and disinfecting the world
By Effect Measure | 11:37 am | September 18, 2009
Most people are either indifferent to swine flu or fearful, but the makers of Purell hand sanitizer and Clorox are happy. It's been a boon to the business of sanitizing everything in sight as a way to ward off swine flu.
The ass is Grassley
By Effect Measure | 12:05 pm | September 08, 2009
We've said both nice things and not so nice things about Finance Committee ranking Republican on healthcare, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), most recently not-so-nice things. Things like calling him morally corrupt, a liar and a gold-plated hypocrite.