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Basically, we tribalize, and that process of unifying feels so good and is so good for us, that it even helps people who are struggling with mental health issues.

And in state-controlled prostitution, commercial sex can only happen in certain legally-designated areas or venues, and sex workers are made to comply with special restrictions, like registration and forced health checks.

If you care about gender equality or poverty or migration or public health, then sex worker rights matter to you.

It's just as vital that we protect the next veteran's health care whistleblower alerting us to overcrowded hospitals, or the next environmental worker sounding the alarm about Flint's dirty water, or a Wall Street insider warning us of the next financial crisis.

And in doing so, we may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health, based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say.

Most of you see a barbershop, but I see an opportunity: an opportunity for health, an opportunity for health equity.

But many times they also talked about health.

The conversations about health were lengthy and deep.

Some of our earliest research on black men's health revealed that for many, the doctor's office is associated with fear, mistrust, disrespect, and unnecessary unpleasantness.

With this kind of activism, and community investment that typifies the black barbershop, of course the barbershop is a perfect place to talk about high blood pressure and other health concerns in the community.

When you're in a barbershop, you're in your territory, and you're among friends who share your history, your struggle and your health risks.

Second, because the barbershop is a place of connection, loyalty and trust, it's a place where you're more open to have a conversation about health and especially about high blood pressure.

Here we have an opportunity to partner with the Denny Moe's of the world and empower communities to address the health inequities that uniquely affect it.

When high blood pressure screening expanded from clinics and hospitals to communities in the 1960s and '70s, black physicians like Dr. Eli Saunders in Baltimore and Dr. Keith Ferdinand in New Orleans were at the forefront of bringing health promotion to community hubs in urban black neighborhoods.

These pioneers paved the way for my professional journey with barbershops and health, which began in Chicago in medical school.

But while there's only one Project Brotherhood, there are thousands of black barbershops where the intersection of health and haircuts can be cultivated.

The next stop on my journey was Dallas, Texas, where we learned that barbers were not only willing but fully able to roll up their sleeves and participate in delivering needed health services to improve the health of their customers and their community.

With an incredible team of diverse research assistants, community health workers and volunteers, we've been able to partner with over 200 barbershops and other trusted community venues to reach over 7,000 older black men.

Thanks to Denny Moe and the myriad other barbers and community leaders who shared the vision of opportunity and empowerment to make a difference in their communities, we've been able to not only lower blood pressure in our participants, but we've also been able to impact other health indicators.

So today, I want to talk about a new approach, an approach that I feel will not only help us know why babies are dying, but is beginning to completely transform the whole field of global health.

What I am talking about is moving from this precise targeting for individuals to tackle public health problems in populations.

This precision approach to a public health problem has cut by nearly half HIV transmission from mothers to baby in the last five years.

Screening pregnant women in certain areas in the developing world is a powerful example of how precision public health can change things on a big scale.

And that, for me, are the important elements of precision public health: who, what, where and how.

A health worker asks a mom who has just lost her child, "Was the baby vomiting?

But what if we applied a precision public health approach?

With this approach, and with these interventions and others like them, I have no doubt that a precision public health approach can help our world achieve our 15-year goal.

So, you know, I live in two different worlds, one world populated by scientists, and another world populated by public health professionals.

The promise of precision public health is to bring these two worlds together.

And what I'm most excited about about precision public health is bridging these two worlds.

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