In Baltimore’s inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man’s life expectancy is sixty-three years old. Less than five miles away in the Greater Rowland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three years old.   What could account for such a large difference? Sir Michael Marmot illustrated global inequality through the lens of a broken health system

We are a great university and great universities should not be afraid to confront big problems. My colleague Federico Castillo from the College of Natural Resources and I have started a new undergraduate course we call, PH196.003 Survival 101: Taking Control of your Future. Most of us use our experience of the past to predict the future.