Hi! My name is Neil Solan, I’m a high schooler in Georgia passionate about public health, public policy, and health equity. I created The Health Policy Journal to explore one central question:
How does public policy shape the prevention and spread of disease and who is responsible for health equity?

Why I Started This Blog

I first became interested in public health and policy through my experiences in school, leadership programs, and conversations with professionals. I found myself asking:

Why do some communities have less access to healthcare than others?
What role do laws, funding, and local decisions play in who gets proper nurtiton and treatment?
How can we prevent disease before it starts, not just treat it once it arrives?

These questions led me to articles, interviews, and real-world policy debates, where I noticed a major gap: people from healthcare, law, business, and government don’t often speak in the same space. So I decided to create one.

What This Blog Is About

Through interviews with doctors, lawyers, public health experts, and business leaders, I want to understand how real systems shape health especially in vulnerable communities. Each post explores how decisions in policy affect disease prevention, access to care, and long-term health equity.

Here’s what you’ll find:

Interviews with people across sectors who shape or are shaped by health policy
Reflections on health disparities, disease outbreaks, and public response
Connections between current policy and everyday health outcomes

Why This Matters

Public health isn’t just a medical issue, rather it’s a political, legal, economic, and ethical one. I believe that if we can better understand how health systems work, we can begin to ask better questions and eventually, help build better answers.

Thanks for reading, and I hope The Health Policy Journal inspires you to think more deeply about the systems that shape our everyday health.