February 2008
Why Health Equity Matters
Everyone deserves good health care. Here’s how to make it happen.
The turbulent journey of Covid-19 has taught us many lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of our health care system. In particular, the pandemic has shone a bright light on long-existing disparities in health care access, experience and outcomes that affect so many populations and communities in the United States. As many of us have…
Cancer Research: Trials & Triumph
For Dr. Nancy Davidson, the fight against cancer is personal
Dr. Nancy Davidson spent more than 30 years as an oncologist before cancer truly hit close to home. In 2011, Davidson’s active, nonsmoking, 53-year-old sister, Leslie Davidson, received a diagnosis of non-small-cell carcinoma of the lungs. Two weeks later, Leslie was dead. “I seldom talk about it, but I’ve gotten better about it over the…
Reading Seattle’s ‘The Rocket’
A soaring journey through the early history of Seattle’s legendary magazine of music and culture
Shortly before Nirvana released its epic album “Nevermind,” a publicist for Geffen Records asked the band members how they might define the album’s success. Their answer? An appearance on the cover of “The Rocket.” It was a dream shared by many local bands. If you lived in Seattle during the 1980s and 1990s, you probably…
Seattle’s First Woman of Whiskey
Carolyn Sellar is blazing new ground as one of only a few Asian women in the world of whiskey
By day, Carolyn Sellar looks after apes, primates, lions and tigers. By night, she’s one of the country’s foremost authorities on whiskey. Sellar, a zookeeper at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, also owns Adventures in Whisky, a Seattle company that has produced hundreds of whiskey-themed events across Washington state. Sellar is also a brand and marketing…
Books: ‘Outrage to Activism’
‘Undercurrents’ urges readers to look beyond the surface
Steve Davis is executive strategic adviser for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is a lecturer on social innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He recently served as the foundation’s interim director of the China Country Office, and as cochair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group. He is…