This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed telemedicine’s potential to improve health care delivery and access. In the past year, we have seen rapid expansion of telemedicine, in the form of video…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During this period of suffering and uncertainty, people are exploring ways to help one another, including through charitable giving. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act included two provisions with the potential to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Only about half the world’s women can make their own decisions on sexual consent and health care, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning such limited rights stand in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Raymond Riles arrived on Texas’s death row in 1976, the year President Gerald Ford lost his reelection bid and the first “Rocky” movie debuted in theaters. Riles had been sentenced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When we wrote last year in India Development Review about how neglecting healthcare delivery for India’s 104 million tribal people undermines India’s ability to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on hunger (SDG 2) and health and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study using computer modeling suggests that eviction bans authorized during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced infection rates. The research indicates that eviction bans not only protected those who would…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The clean energy sector shed around 307,000 jobs last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to research released Monday by advocacy group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), with the sector now employing around 3…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the global health pandemic and its accompanying effects on the business and economic environment in 2020, impact enterprises received USD 2.6 billion in investments across 243 equity deals and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a year of interrupted learning and adapting to virtual classes, families and educators are intensely worried about how to make up for lost instruction. The scope is staggering. Millions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last October, residents in 2 Nigerian states reported deaths from a “strange disease.” Yellow fever had previously spared Enugu and Delta states so some residents blamed spiritual causes for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rate of daily vaccinations continues to increase throughout the United States, but communities are struggling to vaccinate hard-to-reach residents. When vaccine roll-out began in January, 55% of Americans did not even know where they would…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the pandemic forced Austin-based Girlstart to go remote, the priority for Tamara Hudgins, its executive director, was finding a way to maintain that hands-on experience for the girls in…