Justin Feldman, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and a Health and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

02.19.2021

• Seth J. Prins
• Justin Feldman
• Abigail Cartus

Teachers and Their Unions Are Demanding Truly Safe Schools Reopening — Not “Ignoring Science”

Some prominent academics have taken to lecturing teachers and their unions for insisting that reopening schools is still too dangerous. Those academics are wrong: teachers are insisting on a safe, solidaristic approach to opening schools back up that protects parents, students, staff, teachers, and all of us.

01.19.2021

• Justin Feldman

Coronavirus Is an Occupational Disease That Spreads at Work

For both Democratic and Republican politicians, blaming social gatherings for coronavirus’s spread is convenient. But they’ve ignored or denied the central role workplace transmission plays in driving up infections. We need to treat coronavirus as the occupational disease it is — and that means restricting the power of business owners.