This piece is a lengthy position paper that draws on my scholarly research to assess recent directions in U.S. public health and make recommendations based on this assessment. The piece discusses the "securitization" of public health that occurred under the Bush Administration (e.g., the emphasis on "bioterror" preparedness"), and assesses its impact on contemporary public health regimes. I discuss the overlap between social factors of sexism, racism, xenophobia, and imperialism/war-mongering as it shaped public health in the post-9/11 climate, and in fact continues to shape contemporary public health.