Rob Wallace

Rob Wallace is an organizer with Pandemic Research for the People and author of The Fault in Our SARS.

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Pissed-Off Doctors Aren’t Enough to Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Health

Organizing in the South shows everyday people must step in when a society lurches off its rails.

By: Rita Valenti ,; Rob Wallace ,; Joe Sexauer ,; Truthout

October 7, 2025

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State

It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Joe Sexauer ,; Rita Valenti ,; Truthout

July 16, 2025

News Analysis

Environment & Health

“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Responsibility

The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”

By: Joe Sexauer ,; Rita Valenti ,; Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

May 29, 2025

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy

Labor leaders past and present have insisted on expanding the scope of what constitutes health.

By: Joe Sexauer ,; Rita Valenti ,; Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

April 20, 2025

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Experts Sow Confusion About State of COVID Pandemic Amid Another Serious Wave

Bipartisan rounds of strategic obfuscation follow each new COVID wave.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

October 5, 2024

News Analysis

Economy & Labor

Meatpacking Giant Tied to Child Labor, Deforestation and Mass COVID Infection

The Department of Labor filed suit against Brazil meatpacking firm JBS for employing children in Minnesota and Nebraska.

By: Allan de Campos Silva &; Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

November 30, 2022

News Analysis

Environment & Health

COVID Hasn’t Been Defeated, But Effective Public Health Measures Have Been

The demands of the market have been treated as more sacrosanct than the obligation to control and prevent a pandemic.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

August 8, 2022

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

Political Leaders Use “Personal Responsibility” to Justify Needless COVID Deaths

For all his campaign promises, Biden has failed to set up a multilevel systemic public health response to COVID.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

January 27, 2022

Op-Ed

Environment & Health

COVID Shows It’s Time to End the Pharmaceutical Industry

The only way out of this pandemic is a global prioritization of public health above profit.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

January 21, 2022

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Biden’s COVID Plan Is Better Than Trump’s, But Still Far From Sufficient

The pandemic is a structural problem. To truly fight it, we must take on capitalism, agribusiness and racial inequity.

By: Rob Wallace ,; Truthout

November 22, 2020

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