Health

Depression is a costly and debilitating condition that profoundly influences a person’s quality of life. In 2020, more than 21 million adults in the U.S. reported having at least one…

The environmental, economic, and social factors that influence our health are commonly referred to as social determinants of health. These factors are beyond our personal control and are experienced uniquely…

Today is National Rural Health Day, complete with a presidential proclamation, so the Community Strategies Group of The Aspen Institute is using the observance as an opportunity to remind us of people and organizations…

COVID-19 has put the American health care system’s deeply entrenched inequities into high relief. The social, economic and political structures that predated the pandemic’s public health crisis and resulting recession…

Shani Buggs, PhD, is a public health researcher at the University of California, Davis, and one of the nation’s leading experts on anti-racist methods for reducing gun violence in American…

Approximately 19% of the population (61 million people) and 86% of the country’s land area are considered rural. Yet, philanthropy often overlooks these communities – they receive just 7% of…

In April 2020, Schmidt Futures took COVID-19 as an opportunity, organizing more than 200 people (mostly staff from institutional philanthropies) to meet the moment. Eight groups formed to address a…

Black and Hispanic women experience cardiometabolic risks five to 11 years earlier than white women, but studies often underestimate the disparity, new research shows. These biases concerning heart disease and…

Air pollution is the world’s fourth leading cause of death, contributing to about 13 premature deaths every minute. The gases and tiny particles can travel deep into your lungs, enter…

In the dozens of Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning, new research shows that 13 percent of deaths during the six hottest months every year from 2001 through 2019…

The expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, likely to occur in January, will create significant complexity for schools that provide telehealth services to students. Since 2020, the COVID-19 emergency…

There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist. Will we have enough food for a growing global population? How will we take care of more…