Commentary
Health education after COVID-19: A time to revisit, revamp, and revitalize?

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Highlights

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    Health education is critical to promoting health literacy during formative years.

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    Current health curricula represent reactive models of health.

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    We advocate for use of proactive and multi-component models of health.

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    The infectious disease community should be at the forefront of health education.

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    Now is the time to revisit, revamp, and revitalize health education curricula in the United States.

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Funding/support: Kyle J. Gontjes is supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (training grant no. T32-HG000040) at the National Institutes of Health. e National Institutes of Health.

Conflicts of interest: None to report.

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