This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the beginning of 2022 marked by yet another wave of COVID-19, it’s easy to feel like there is a dark cloud hanging over the year already, despite it only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deeply rooted systemic inequities shape our country’s maternal mortality crisis. Because structural racism has driven long-standing racial inequities in health care access and health outcomes, maternal morbidity and mortality rates for Black and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the world struggles to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for reliable data to track our progress is more important than ever. Government, civil society, and private sector…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800 Black American families…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2022, blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate, which applied to virtually all private companies with 100 of more employees. But it left in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Medicaid, the largest public health insurance program for the non-elderly, low-income population in the United States, has been an important lifeline for many since the pandemic began, with almost 10…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scott County School District 1 in Austin, Indiana reopened for the fall semester with optional face masks, less distancing in classrooms and no remote option. District leaders quickly realized they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past two years, the media, politicians, public health authorities, and others have paid close attention to the number of lives lost to COVID-19: more than 800,000 Americans so…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Decades of scientific research have suggested that a child’s early life experience has the power to profoundly affect their learning. One of the most predictive factors is socioeconomic status (SES), which recent research has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A simple language intervention could help boost vaccination rates, especially when presenting information to people in bilingual populations, according to a new study. The findings show that between two groups…