This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world is still far off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Consider some figures on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Smithsonian Magazine reports on the top ten myths about the brain, revealing the intricacies of this organ. • How can philanthropists and private funding help researchers gather…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Global Citizen raises concerns over a new CNN report that shows how airborne polluted particles can travel into pregnant women’s placenta, jeopardizing fetal health. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Rebecca Fogg reports that social prescribing is a form of preventative health care that meets patients needs in ways that don’t enforce medication but instead are catered to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nonprofit Quarterly discusses how the consequences of poverty, racism and other social inequities have an outsized impact on health — and whether health systems can enact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Social Programs That Work report shares research conducted around a community-based lifestyle weight-loss program for overweight or obese adults with pre-diabetes: The results were promising. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Governing magazine reports on the efforts of state lawmakers across the U.S. to raise taxes on pharmaceutical companies. The intent is to help pay for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Erin Sagen discusses the disconnect between child and maternal mortality rates in the United States healthcare system, where the baby’s health is treated as the primary concern.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mahesh Vee explains why education alone is not sufficient to produce workforce-ready individuals. Nutrition and other factors also play into students abilities to learn and eventually enter the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Social determinants of health are important to record for doctors to obtain a complete picture of patients’ health history. However, medical professionals are running into barriers in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Audrey M. Provenzano explains how work requirements for Medicaid that would increase the burden on poor individuals who are already struggling to pay bills and get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The RAND Corp released a middle school curriculum that emphasizes the dangers of opioid misuse and heroin in an attempt to hinder the growth of the opioid…