Health

We are experiencing a watershed moment for philanthropy-funded social change efforts in the United States. The partnerships, knowledge, and resources that funders leverage have never been more important in contributing…

“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way…

In early 2022 in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (via the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), Resource Generation leaders launched a cross-chapter member-led…

Repeated exposure to hurricanes is linked to adverse psychological symptoms and may be associated with increased mental health problems, according to a new study. The findings, which hold true whether…

Whether or not you’ve heard of the chemical bisphenol A, better known as BPA, studies show that it’s almost certainly in your body. BPA is used in the manufacturing of…

No one is spared from reckoning with human-induced environmental change, like pollution from industrial emitters and increasingly severe natural disasters. Yet in correctional facilities, incarcerated people have no agency over…

Discrimination is all too common and prevents LGBTQ people from living healthy lives. A 2016 survey of more than 3,000 LGBTQ Missourians conducted by PROMO, Missouri’s LGBTQ statewide advocacy organization,…

Much of the debate over the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the unemployment rate, but that focus understates the pandemic’s impact on the labor market. Although millions of workers have…

Before the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leak hit the headlines — and the avalanche of legislation criminalizing safe abortion access arrived in states across the country — grassroots organizers were bracing…

Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas,…

Every year, 295,000 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth globally. Nigeria accounts for an enormous 23% of these deaths. Each one is a needless tragedy, and preventing them should…

In addition to a growing appreciation of the role of “social determinants of health”—housing, transportation, nutrition, and other factors in influencing health—it is becoming better understood that certain cross-sector partnerships…