Public Health Onstage represents an attempt to combine two visions of public health--the scientific and the artistic. Each one of the short essays deals with some aspect of public health, including human papillomavirus vaccination, medication marketing, safe sleep, malpractice, sexual assault, opioid abuse, and many more. Paired with each scientific essay are one or more original short plays that delve into the same or similar subject matter while exploiting its dramatic potential.

Dr. David Holcombe has taken many of the plays from previous publications, including Beauty and the...