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    Why Mental Health Depends on Collective Health

    Skoll Foundation Jun 28, 2021

    Mental health is nearly always seen as an individual issue requiring individual solutions. Yet in reality it’s as much a problem for groups and organizations. One legacy of the COVID-19…

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    The Impact of the Delta COVID Variant on Unvaccinated Youth

    The 74 Jun 28, 2021

    The highly contagious Delta COVID variant quickly spreading through the U.S. may force schools to double down on mitigation measures in order to reopen safely later this summer and into…

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    How Deforestation and Encroachment Can Jumpstart Diseases

    The Conversation

    The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happen at…

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    Rural Community Spaces Are Needed to Create Connection and Curb Drug Abuse

    Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan Jun 28, 2021

    We understand that connection with others is good for our health, longevity, and even the resilience of our community. We less often consider the physical places and structures, or the…

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    Working to Prevent Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea

    PSI

    “If there is a vision of change in your heart, there is an activist within.” SASA! Community Activists in Papua New Guinea are using their power positively to create the change they…

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    Inequitable Vaccine Distribution Inhibits Global Herd Immunity

    The Conversation Jun 27, 2021

    In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the…

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    State Trends in Child Well-being Before and During COVID

    The Annie E. Casey Foundation Jun 27, 2021

    The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s publication…

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    Burning of Fossil Fuels Linked to Over One Million Deaths in 2017

    Futurity Jun 26, 2021

    More than one million deaths worldwide were attributable to the burning of fossil fuels in 2017, according to a new study. More than half of those deaths were attributable to…

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    Removing Barriers for Women Farmers in India During COVID-19

    AVPN Jun 26, 2021

    The COVID-19 experience has removed any doubts about how inextricably countries, communities and societies are linked. It has also clearly highlighted that while responding to crises and providing relief during…

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    Public Health Risks of Heat Waves

    Grist Jun 25, 2021

    One of the most extreme heat waves ever recorded baked the American West last week, with 40 million Americans affected by temperatures soaring above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Deemed a “mega-heat…

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    The Need for Prisons and Jails to Continue Decarcerating

    Prison Policy Initiative Jun 25, 2021

    At the start of the pandemic, public health and medical officials were already warning that incarcerated people would be uniquely vulnerable to the spread of the disease and its most serious medical…

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    Growing and Evolving Health Philanthropy Beyond the Pandemic

    Grantmakers In Health Jun 24, 2021

    As the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, the 2020 cohort of the Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy was thrust into uncertainty and isolation like those in the…

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