This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Headlining the climate finance discussions next week at COP26 may be the shortfall in advanced economies’ $100 billion annual pledge to help low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) adapt and further…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In fall 2019, before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, California legislators were trying to pass a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination. Five years previously, someone at Disneyland had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at people taking immunosuppressive medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Since a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Human-caused emissions of air pollutants fell during last year’s COVID-19 economic slowdowns, improving air quality in some parts of the world, while wildfires and sand and dust storms in 2020…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the aftermath of an 18-month crash course in digital tools and remote teaching, teachers and administrators are reflecting on what they hope to take away and apply to their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last summer, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation each created a rapid-response grantmaking program to help nonprofits across the US use local data to support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since 1985, cancer-related nonprofits, along with pharmaceutical firms and other businesses, have sponsored an international campaign to observe October as “Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” During these weeks, the public is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public health officials and outside experts warned the federal government for years before the coronavirus pandemic that the US was not focusing enough on public health prevention. They were proven right. Now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The impact of domestic violence is not unknown to homeless service providers: research consistently shows that high numbers of people experiencing homelessness have also survived domestic violence. For some it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The findings, in JAMA Internal Medicine, highlight fading economic opportunity as a driving factor in the ongoing national opioid epidemic, and build on previous research that links declining participation in the…
Child marriage is #Solvable. Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands outlines how we can share a percentage of what we spend on weddings to help end the crisis of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Slowing the pace of climate change, increasing access to health care and comprehensively covering the news are very different but worthy goals with some things in common. One is gridlock.…