Robert Brehm

Robert Brehm is a Master of Public Health candidate at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health and a Columnist for Urbānitūs. He is a graduate of the Master of Global Policy Studies program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He contributed to a 2019 book on Emerging Policy Practices in Latin America, writing a chapter on Prevalence and Burden of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Latin America. He holds a BA in History and Anthropology from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Life at the end of the ‘Age of Miracles’ — a look at why progress itself makes plagues and pandemics more likely and devastating

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Austin’s segregation mirrored in the devastating burden COVID-19 imposes on city’s poor, uninsured and yet ‘essential’

Long before the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic began their spread across the globe,...

The unique, universal and slow-moving trauma of a disease that attacks our patience along with our bodies

Imagine speeding down a busy avenue as the passenger in a vehicle. The driver...