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.
How to make America radical again (and how to remember that in fact it always has been)
How Texas rebuffed billions in ACA aid to insure the poor, and how Austin and other cities could fix it
Urbānitūs Roundtable Series - Episode #2 - The Future of Transit in Austin - October 12th, 2020
Despite hyper-partisan discourse about cities, the fates of urban, suburban and rural America are thoroughly intertwined
America’s zero-sum, tooth-and-nail political battlescape in the microcosm of Wisconsin
How COVID-19 has robbed children of pediatric visits, parents of child care and students of social interaction
Life at the end of the ‘Age of Miracles’ -- a look at why progress itself makes plagues and pandemics more likely and devastating
Austin’s segregation mirrored in the devastating burden COVID-19 imposes on city’s poor, uninsured and yet ‘essential’
The unique, universal and slow-moving trauma of a disease that attacks our patience along with our bodies
What the architects of emerging COVID-19 coalitions might learn from leagues of old