Ripples of Hope Book Release

The book Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda was released in December 2024. Boston University School of Public Health and Dean Sandro Galea hosted two book launch events on December 3rd, 2024. The first event was a public health conversation webinar titled: Health Equity Policy, Community, and the Mississippi Delta. The panel for the webinar included: Timothy Callaghan, associate professor of HLPM, and who credited Jones for his own interest in health policy, as the moderator who guided the discussion among the group of panelists, which included Bizu Gelaye, chief of the epidemiology branch and senior investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; John Green, professor and director of the Southern Rural Development Center; Jamilah Michener, associate professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University; Philip Rocco, associate professor of political science at Marquette University; and Lynn Woo, associate director of the Center for Population Studies at The University of Mississippi. You can read more about the webinar and book release reception here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/in-posthumous-book-late-professors-quest-to-reduce-health-inequities-in-mississippi-delta-lives-on/

Health Affairs posted an article by Sandro Galea where he highlights some of David K. Jones’s scholarly work. This includes a review of David’s latest book. Gaea says, “The book perhaps puts to rest once and for all the canard that bad health is primarily a result of bad behavior and makes it clear that even in—and perhaps particularly so—the region with the worst health metrics in the country, the conditions that drive such poor health are a result of choices we make as a society, and not choices that individuals make. These conditions emerge—and persist—because we do not have the political will to change them, and because we are willing to consign some among us to the conditions that so hold them back. It is in illuminating these very conditions, through engaging language and compelling narrative, that Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta makes its most indelible contribution.” https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/remembering-david-k-jones-s-scholarship-consequence Health Equity Policy launches the YouTube Channel where you can find videos from scholars across the country discussing their key insights from reading David’s book. To watch these testimonials go to: https://www.youtube.com/@HealthEquityPolicy