This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Robert Wiblin discusses The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention, which is working to help prevent suicides in agricultural communities in Asia and Africa. • Can a strategy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fred Hutch News Service reports on a possible breakthrough in the field of immunotherapy, which involves “resetting” the body’s own response to multiple myeloma. • Immunotherapy research…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Effective Altruism post, Open Philanthropy Project program officer Claire Zabel discusses the status of the group’s biosecurity work, whether it’s training future innovators in the field…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the RAND Corporation, Bradley D. Stein discusses the current opioid crisis happening throughout America and explains that when it comes to creating policy to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Joe McCarthy and Erica Sanchez at Global Citizen analyze a new study explaining how air pollution is destroying your health and can lead to Alzheimer’s. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Due to the ongoing violence happening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Global Citizen explains that efforts to help address Ebola have been stalled. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: · Carolyn Phencie, writing for The 74, discusses student activists’ call for gun control and mental health programs in schools. · What needs to be done to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TED reports on the work of Australian researcher Mark Cook, who conceived of a device that would constantly monitor the brain activity of people with epilepsy,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Next Avenue reports on a program in Arizona that gives older adults in rural areas access to free van rides via a technology-based platform developed by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Conversation discusses how childhood trauma can affect the mental and physical health of pregnant women — and how emotional support can counteract those adverse effects.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Kathryn Pitkin Derose explains that the proposed “public charge” rule not only threatens immigrant healthcare, but could potentially cause issues for all US citizens. If the “public charge”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brookings compiled a list of facts that pertain to the state of global health. This list is a good reminder of the issues of health security abroad and…