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Rare grand initiatives and discoveries aside, population health and its supporting science usually advance by the slow accretion and sharing of a myriad of capacities, findings and interventions across the global scientific community. In the best of cases, ordinary people benefit. But in the worst cases, science is shunted aside, ignored or twisted to fit interests that actively oppose the right to health.
Among those threatened today are indigenous health, reproductive rights, quality health care for marginalized populations and entire continents, planetary health, and certainly health in all policies. A version of “racial and economic profiling” turns patients into clients or turns them away altogether. These are some reasons why health professionals and researchers have taken to the streets with entire communities, defending their work to improve medicine and health equity: “I can’t believe we have to march for science…yet we do,” one prestigious scholar put it.