This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • With 30 years of experience researching HIV and other infectious diseases, Robert Redfield appears to have the resume to lead the Centers for Disease Control. However,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex profiles how parts of Nigeria got on the grid through satellite technology, enabling health workers to access patient data more efficiently and pinpoint potential outbreaks of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brookings looks at new evidence released from the National Survey of Children’s Health that shows which ethnic groups have access to special education and related programs.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Because of diverse reasons for and methods of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) around the world, there is no one approach that can end it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The U.S. has taken a stance to the right of Russia and Arab and African countries on women’s right at a top U.N. meeting, moving to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex expresses concerns over the lack of support for rubella prevention around the world and how it highlights gender inequality, since the burden of care for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sarah McCarthy observes that the television show ‘”This Is Us” effectively portrays how social detriments of health impact people from the time they are born into their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • While federal datasets remain, significant changes have been made to funding structures, language, and accessibility in order to obstruct scientific findings the administration finds inconvenient. • How does…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 74 details the scene from March For Our Lives this past Saturday, with survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting standing out as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meet Garen Wintemute. ER doctor. Researcher. The NRA’s worst nightmare. The 66 year-old spent months healing victims of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia right out of medical residency…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wellcome funds a wide range of work that explores women’s health, both contemporary and historical, on subjects ranging from research ethics and women’s role in medical training to abortion stigma,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Peter Sands took over this month as the new head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. But before he’d even officially taken his seat at the Fund’s…