Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH, is PHI’s vice president for external relations at Public Health Institute, preventive medicine advisor and director of the Center for Health Leadership and Practice.
A recently updated list of federally approved “evidence-based” teen pregnancy prevention programs has been causing a stir. Rather than blaming Obama for this, we’d all do better to recognize that it was the result of a fundamentally flawed system sorely in need of review and repair.