In How Healthy Is Your County?, an article that explores differences in public health between American communities, ABC News.com quotes Professor Robert Field on the relatively modest cost of critical interventions for promoting well-being.

Professor Field is a nationally recognized expert on health policy and public health law whose research focuses on ethical issues in managed care, public policy and legal facets of health care reform and genetic screening. He holds a joint appointment as professor of health management and policy at the Drexel School of Public Health.