Author Archives: Anthony Fleg

About Anthony Fleg

Anthony Fleg is a family medicine physician at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the College of Population Health. He served as a Partnership Director of the Native Health Initiative (NHI) from 2005-2022 and has dedicated much of his career to improving health in Indigenous communities. He is a proud father of 4 children, an avid runner, and a blogger. His first book, Writing to Heal: A Pandemic Journey to Healing came out in Spring 2022.

Health effects of tech overload: Can public health see it?

By | August 31, 2023

What if there was a public health problem so big that even public health leaders were too enmeshed in its grip to be able to warn against its perils? I worry that we are in that very conundrum with regard to our relationship with technology. It has accelerated from being part of our world to… Read More »

Social Fitnessing as a Pandemic Health Strategy

By | February 23, 2023

Public health has preached a lot of things in the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has promoted social distancing, masks, vaccines, and quarantine to help prevent the spread. And it has helped spread awareness about antivirals for people infected with COVID-19. But what about “social fitnessing”?   This is the premise that the… Read More »

The new landscape for community public health

By | March 10, 2022

We’re in a new landscape, where citizens sees themselves as agents for community public health and as part of the public health infrastructure. My patient began to talk about COVID in her community. She first told me the rates of infection from the previous weeks. Then she told me what COVID strains were dominant at… Read More »