This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Early on in the pandemic, global health experts envisioned a nightmare scenario: Covid-19 vaccines are created, but they go almost exclusively to rich countries that can afford to buy them.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a child growing up on his family’s subsistence farm in Puebla, Mexico, Abel Luna loved helping to plant corn and other crops. But in 2001, when he turned 13,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Organic meat is half as likely to contain multidrug-resistant bacteria as conventional meat, according to a new analysis of contamination data collected from nearly 40,000 samples of chicken, pork, beef,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The report, titled ‘German funding for LGBTIQA+ human rights work in the Global South and East’, surveys and documents funding from Germany for LGBTIQA+ human rights work. “For vulnerable minorities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States has a surplus of COVID-19 vaccines—more than enough to vaccinate every adult. Poor countries, however, are still struggling to secure doses. Should those vaccines be sent to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If there’s one take-home message for the general public about the coronavirus vaccines approved in the US, it’s that they are remarkably effective. But Michigan State University’s Morteza Mahmoudi is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Renee Salas, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been thinking about the connections between climate change and public health for a long time. In her emergency room in Boston,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the International Day for Biological Diversity, we caught up with Dave Hodson, senior scientist at CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, to discuss why conservation may be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Implementation science is an evolving field that aims to use evidence and rigorously acquired knowledge to close quality and outcome gaps in health and human services. However, we still have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To be capable of surveilling, preventing, and managing disease outbreaks, public health systems require trustworthy, community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals. The world…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the country, communities are threatened by drinking water problems. Data on drinking water pollution is generally not well tracked by governments, due, in part, to the many and varied…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly all 50 states have opted into an online purchasing pilot for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While the program offers a safer way to shop and has the…