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Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief

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We begin this issue on "Policies and Programs to Advance Public Health" with several calls for deeper understanding of the social, historical, and environmental contexts of people’s lives to more effectively meet their particular needs, including Borrell’s conceptual model of racial identity to better understand the health implications among diverse Hispanic subgroups and Nemoto and colleagues’ efforts to create a safe space for providing transgender women with tailored health education.

As I write this column, an undersea earthquake has just sent tsunamis crashing into the heavily populated shorelines of more than 10 countries in Asia and East Africa. While the . . . [Full Text]