Professor Sugarman’s Contribution to Public Health Scholarship

ABSTRACT

The article focuses on work of Professor Stephen D. Sugarman in the area of public health. It mentions his major contributions to this literally life-and-death field, a field that the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated to its proper place in the policy universe. It also mentions education of children who grow up in and around poverty and his work on how to combat the public health scourges of obesity, tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy foods.