This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Living in rural America certainly comes with a number of benefits. There is less crime, access to the outdoors, and lower costs of living. Yet, not everything is rosy outside…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofits that focus on working with survivors of domestic violence face a specific set of hurdles that they must overcome. Not only are there specific reporting requirements that need to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. FFor more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. Their fifth assessment report led to the Paris Agreement in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By the end of 2016, Nicholas Bailey had no teeth. A Michigan prison dentist had removed all of them because they were decaying. “I’m in pain,” he wrote in a series…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, one piece of data has gotten a lot of attention: 99.5% of all the people dying from COVID-19 in the U.S. are unvaccinated. We are two researchers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I first joined MSF in September 2014, as part of the response to the West African Ebola outbreak that hit Liberia that year. On the day I applied for the role, I saw everyone…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even though Americans shared the experience of living through a global pandemic, their individual attitudes towards it differed and evolved – sometimes dramatically. We study risk perception. Using public opinion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prisons and jails in the United States have been increasingly deadly places in recent years, according to new federal data. But one cause of death has climbed most dramatically: overdoses. From…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Rural hospitals must leverage the full resources of their communities in order to survive.” That’s the “most critical” lesson learned from last year’s closing of Williamson Memorial Hospital in West Virginia, Taylor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The most obvious early effects of COVID-19 were the ways in which it shrank the spheres of life, work, and school. Within a few months of its emergence last winter,…
John Campbell, Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Exeter, and Brandi Leach, Senior Analyst at not-for-profit research organisation RAND Europe, discuss how primary care practices can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many didn’t get back on schedule even after clinics reopened. The new study shows the effect may have been greatest in areas where such care is already likely falling behind…