Veteran Science & Health translates published research on military and veteran health into clear visual explainers.
It is an independent publication. Not an institution, not an outlet with a staff of writers. One editor, working from peer-reviewed studies, building one explainer at a time when the research warrants it.
Research on veteran health tends to stay where it is written. Behind a journal paywall, inside a dense methods section, in language built for other specialists. The findings that describe veterans often never reach them in a form they can use.
VSH exists to make a small number of those findings legible. Not all of them. The ones that earn an explainer get the full treatment: read closely, synthesized, and built into something a person can actually follow.
Only published research
Every explainer is built from a study that is already published and publicly available. No embargoed papers, no unfinished drafts, no leaks. If it isn't public, it doesn't get covered.
My own synthesis
Each explainer is my own reading and design. I do not reproduce the article's text. I work out what the study actually shows and why it matters, and build the explanation from there.
Sources, always
Every explainer credits its source and links to the original. The numbers on the page are checked against the published study before anything goes live.
Honest edges
Every piece includes what the study does not say. A finding is only as good as its limits, and those belong on the page, not buried in a footnote.
I'm Marcus Henry. I write and edit Veteran Science & Health on my own time. My work sits close to veteran health research, which is how I come across these studies, but VSH is a personal project with no institutional backing.
I make these explainers partly to understand the research better myself. The clearest test of whether you've understood a study is whether you can show someone else what it found. I publish them because the same thing that helps me might help someone else: a veteran, a caregiver, a policymaker, another writer trying to read past the abstract.
Veteran Science & Health is independent and written in a personal capacity. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official communication of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the authors of the studies it covers, or their institutions. Where a study involves the Department of Defense, the same applies. The synthesis, the framing, and any errors are mine.
More of my work is at marcushenry.com.