This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a partisan divide has existed over the appropriate government response to the public health crisis. Democrats have been more likely to favor stricter policies such as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Evidence suggests that separating immigrant children from their families could cause lasting emotional trauma. Gun violence and adverse weather events destroy lives and property, and create hazardous living conditions. Structural…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Arkansas Senate passed legislation prohibiting medical providers from offering gender-affirming hormones or surgeries to trans youth. If you were to read the bill – titled the Save Adolescents From…
Turning existing city infrastructure green by installing plants can filter out fine dust and noise, reduce urban heat island effects, and even reduce stress. All it takes is regreening 20…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the share of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa decreased from 56 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2012, the region’s rapid population growth outpaced the decrease in poverty,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In our nation, babies are born into a system of well-child care—a series of planned health care visits designed to protect their health from day one through age six. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Stress, trauma, and racism occur at high rates within Indigenous communities and have not been explored as potential contributors to cardiometabolic disease (CMD). But new research examines this link and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In addition to its devastating public health impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequality around the world. Poor populations have disproportionately experienced COVID-19 infection while enduring greater financial hardship as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During an event co-hosted by Food Tank and the Danone Institute North America, panelists discuss ways to nourish people and the planet, while also dismantling systemic racism and inequity. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Historically, attention to public health has waxed and waned as crises strike and then abate. The result has been a patchwork of inadequate public health infrastructure, the weaknesses of which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Riyaz*, a Rohingya refugee who lives in a crowded camp in Delhi along with nearly 300 others, is desperate to get himself vaccinated against COVID-19. But India’s ongoing vaccination drive is only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Craig Koller grew up splashing through backyard creeks and biking gravel trails, sometimes through the Johnson Control Industries Fire Technology Center. Black smoke wafted overhead as it conducted controlled burns to…