Health

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction seems…

In the absence of industry-wide social media standards, parents, teachers and caretakers can feel a heavy burden to monitor content and screen time.

For children living near U.S. highways, a transition to zero-emission electric vehicles will mean reduced exposure to dangerous exhaust.

A generation ago, polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. Many countries have now eliminated polio, and our generation has the chance to eradicate it entirely.

COVID-19 has made very visible how climate change will affect us all on a global scale, which has stirred renewed energy to ‘build back better’ through climate resiliency. Some of…

While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. Or at the …

COVID-19 has made very visible how climate change will affect us all on a global scale, which has stirred renewed energy to “build back better” through climate resiliency. Some of…

Though the Global South tends to experience higher disease burdens, most public health decisions and knowledge generation are centered in the Global North.

“If you want to make progress fighting the opioid epidemic, tackling homelessness is one route to do that.”…

During a week when the world has focused on how governments and corporations can support initiatives that uplift women and girls globally at the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), more than…

States prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time.

Some states, especially in the Southeastern US, have large disparities in breastfeeding among racial groups, making clear the need to lower barriers for breastfeeding in the workplace and elsewhere.