This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Supporting mental health and emotional well-being for changemakers boosts resilience, retention, and social impact, experience from The Wellbeing Project – an initiative co-created with Ashoka, Impact Hub, Porticus, the Skoll Foundation, and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly three decades after contracting malaria multiple times in childhood, Dr. Rose Jalang’o is now spearheading Kenya’s rollout of the groundbreaking malaria vaccine. The RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine was approved by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children – whether those children are physically in the line of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study documents the success of a home-based health monitoring program helping to track the progress of COVID-19 patients who test positive for the virus but aren’t sick enough…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Testimony of Alliance CEO, Nan Roman, to the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee (Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance) at the Housing America: Addressing Challenges in Serving People…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco On Aug. 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will end use of chlorpyrifos – a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Newark, and Oakland, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI) supports community-based organizations working to increase vaccine confidence and uptake in communities of color. In this blog post,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers analyzed and mapped soil lead concentrations along 25 miles of streets in Durham, North Carolina, a city of about 270,000 people. They found that while soil lead levels have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For children suffering from rare diseases, it usually takes years to receive a diagnosis. This “diagnostic odyssey” is filled with multiple referrals and a barrage of tests, seeking to uncover…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On one of the first days of our seventh grade sexual health unit in my small western Wisconsin suburb, we watched a speech by Pam Stenzel, one of the most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For some Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a source of traumatic stress that may predict post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to a new study. Research shows that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The blood supply in the U.S. is now at its lowest level in over a decade. Many of the nation’s blood centers currently have only a one-day supply of some…