In this issue of AJPH, which is being issued in alignment with National Public Health Week, Former Governor John Kasich(R-OH) makes a compelling case for the need for a more lucid and effective effort to enhance the public's understanding of what public health is and how we all benefit. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed not only the weaknesses in the organization, infrastructure, and core resources of our public health system but, more importantly, the loss of basic trust and public support for proven public health measures and the practitioners that use them. [...]it is quite common for people to take these protections for granted, and although they all want someone to protect them, they don't know that when they are protected it is because of public health's efforts.
What Is Public Health? Telling Our Own Story