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- What are your top public health priorities in your new role as surgeon general and how do you plan to address them?
- How will your experience as a rural-based physician influence your work as surgeon general?
- Prevention is a cornerstone of public health, though it doesn’t often get the attention and resources it deserves. Would you agree with that statement? And if so, how can we reverse that trend?
- Because of budget constraints and regular employee turnover, local health departments continue to lose workers, with surveys finding that about 8,000 local health department positions were lost in the first half of 2009 alone. How worrisome is this trend?
- Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data found that adult smoking rates have stalled, remaining virtually unchanged since 2004. As surgeon general, how do you plan to tackle tobacco use among Americans, especially among youth?
- As we move into a new decade of emerging diseases and longstanding health threats, what message do you have for U.S. public health workers?