This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The highly contentious Purdue Pharma settlement announced Sept. 1, 2021, comes at a pivotal time for the U.S. overdose crisis: 2020 was the worst year on record, with over 93,000…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report offers insight on how local grantmakers and governments can intentionally create community-based solutions to decrease social isolation. • What role can donor investment play in addressing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Not so long ago, it seemed the data on COVID-19 held a degree of comfort when it came to children: not too many of them got infected, fewer still got…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In early 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic was touted as “the great equalizer.” As COVID-19 cases rose and the global death toll dominated daily headlines, things never seemed so daunting. Nobody…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Noël Harmon, PhD, president and executive director of Asian Pacific Islander American Scholars (APIA Scholars), believes that all Asian and Pacific Islander Americans should have access to higher education and resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just ahead of the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that opens on Tuesday, leaders of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations — grant makers that have committed billions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), hunger has been on the rise since 2015 and, by 2020, 768 million people are chronically suffering from the problem. In the same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After two years of disrupted schooling, most everyone planned for in-person classes and a return to some normalcy. But the highly transmissible Delta variant is complicating those plans as it…
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 Black women who have experienced more racism throughout their lives have stronger brain responses to threat,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world have renewed their push to increase the number of vaccinated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students who are gender nonconforming, genderqueer or transgender are more than four times as likely as their cisgender peers to experience one or more mental health issues, according to a new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Indoor distances of two meters—about six and a half feet—may not be enough to sufficiently prevent transmission of airborne aerosols, researchers report. Eighteen months ago, stickers began to dot the…