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 States’ financial investments in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After three consecutive years of lower-than-expected rainfall, Cape Town, South Africa, found itself in a water crisis in 2017 and 2018. Amid dire warnings of reaching “Day Zero,” when the water supply…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For example, a recent Southern Illinois University Medicine report found that rural Illinois is short as many as 19,100 nurses, Jakob Emerson reports for WICD in Springfield. The reasons cited in the report likely apply in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 28 million Americans still aren’t eligible for coronavirus vaccines—elementary school-aged kids between the ages of 5 and 11—but Biden administration officials announced that’s poised to change soon. The White…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities had to get smarter faster than ever in the last 19 months as they faced the coronavirus crisis, the racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd, climate-related extreme…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Healthy Eating Research (HER) recently released research that aims to understand the strategies that best increase consumer demand for healthier products. The report, A National Research Agenda to Support Health Eating Through Retail…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The high costs of COVID-19 are evident in lost jobs, dramatic falls in GDP growth, compromised schooling, shuttered restaurants, and much more. Some of these losses will be recovered over…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By the year 2100, heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people, assuming greenhouse emissions remain the same, researchers report. That’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From balconies in New York City to the National Assembly in Kenya; across Spain, Italy, Turkey, Singapore, India, and many other nations around the world—some of the most inspiring images…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enlisting community health workers to help diagnose and treat acute malnutrition may significantly increase coverage and save lives, according to new research from the global humanitarian group Action Against Hunger. The Community Health Workers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On any given day in the United States, close to 100 people are killed by firearms. For each death, two more people are injured. Whether it takes the form of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States is experiencing an unprecedented pedestrian fatality crisis. Although Americans drove less during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 pedestrian fatality rate per vehicle miles traveled increased an unprecedented 21…