Our responsibilities to the health of all in a time of challenge
It is perhaps true after any national election that we should spend some time reflecting both on the results, and what they shall mean for the coming four years. This is undoubtedly even more true after an election as contentious as the one that has just unfolded, bringing back to power a president who has been overtly inimical to many of the goals of health. It is not my role to speculate on the whys of this particular electoral outcome—I leave that to our colleagues in political science and to a legion of opinionators in the media—but I do see it as my role to reflect on the implications this election has for those of us whose preoccupation is the health of the public.
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