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Together, public health professionals work to improve health on a population level, focusing on large-scale problems like infectious diseases, addiction disorders and environmental health.

Local public health is no different. LHDs should collaborate with the private sector, local medical societies, or other public agencies to meet their public health objectives.

Dr. Hamblin is a journalist and a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. This article is part of Times Opinion’s reflection on the two-year mark of the Covid pandemic.