David Tuller
David Tuller is a journalist and public health lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Global Public Health. He spent his early career covering HIV/AIDS, then pivoted to ME/CFS. Career His career in public health began with AIDS advocacy in the 1980s. He is also the author of ''Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia'', a 1997 book on LGBT history and life in Russia based on Tuller's travels and interviews with LGBT Russians. Currently, he is a senior fellow in public health and journalism at a crowdfunded position at Berkeley. Before it was widely accepted as such, he advocated for the acceptance of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as a biological condition. In 2015, he published "Trial by Error," a four-part article criticizing the design of the PACE trial, a controversial study that claimed CBT and graded exercise therapy Graded exercise therapy (GET) is a programme of physical activity that starts very s ...
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Public Health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. The ''public'' can be as small as a handful of people or as large as a village or an entire city; in the case of a pandemic it may encompass several continents. The concept of ''health'' takes into account physical, psychological, and Well-being, social well-being, among other factors.What is the WHO definition of health?
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