This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world’s nutrition crisis is worsening, according to the 2021 Report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) from the U.N Food and Agriculture Organization. Conflict, violence, and economic shocks,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its intention to amend the 2016 update to the Equal Access Rule. This policy protects transgender and gender non-conforming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Los Angeles used to have some of the worst air quality in not just the country, but the world. One smog event in 1943 was so thick and toxic that Californians worried…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine a 65-year-old woman who sees her physician frequently for a variety of aches and pains. She might complain of back pain on one visit, headaches another time, and feeling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s push for more employers to require vaccines is likely to accelerate an already-growing trend in schools. In the past month, the number of states requiring teacher vaccinations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the start of the school year upon us, the anxiety and health concerns for students, their families, and teachers are all too real. Discussions about mask mandates, testing, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rise of the highly transmissible delta variant around the U.S. has increased demand for rapid antigen COVID-19 tests that can be purchased from a pharmacy without a prescription, used…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The introduction of the medical treatment called Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) dramatically improved the health and longevity of HIV-positive women in the study. The women’s lives subsequently improved dramatically…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Air pollution was responsible for 9,700 more deaths in 2018 than it was in 2016, according to a new paper by economists at Carnegie Mellon. The researchers, Karen Clay and Nicholas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers from UC Berkeley are calling for an overhaul of the federal food stamps program that would remove barriers preventing millions of people from accessing live-saving benefits. The new report published…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The restart of fully in-person public school classes in less than a month will bring the return of nearly a million students — along with more than 4,000 school safety…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scaling a solution is not the same as solving a problem at scale. Nearly 1 billion people around the world live with blindness or vision impairment that is correctable with…