Globally, access to COVID-19 vaccines has been uneven. More than one year since vaccines became widely available in high-income Western countries, many lower-income countries have struggled with supply and have…
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Continuing to Fund Public Health Initiatives
PhilanTopic Aug 4, 2022It’s a haunting irony that New Yorkers and the nation have crossed the second anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns just as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has…
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Supporting Immigrant Health Care Workers in Illinois
Migration Policy Institute Aug 3, 2022Since the onset of the pandemic, the nation’s healthcare system has struggled to keep up with high demand for emergency care, vaccines, and COVID-19 testing. More than two years on,…
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Reflections on Increasing Preparedness for the Next Pandemic
Migration Policy Institute Aug 1, 2022Two years after COVID-19 halted cross-border mobility in its tracks, most countries are seeking to fully restart migration and mobility. Sweeping border closures and travel bans have largely been phased…
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How Mobile Technology Can Help the Homeless Population
RAND Corporation Jul 30, 2022Mobile technology has become ubiquitous to 21st Century living, in terms of how we receive and exchange information, for both social and economic interactions. Many of us start our day…
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Expanding Access to Eyeglasses in Liberia
Skoll Jul 30, 2022Imagine a life fundamentally changed by a $1 investment. For over 800 million people around the world, there’s a critical tool to sustain their livelihood that remains out of reach:…
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The Pandemic-Related Rise in Murder Rates in Rural Areas
The Rural Blog Jul 28, 2022Murder rates in rural America “have soared during the pandemic,” report Dan Frosch, Kris Maher and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal. Rebecca McCoy, prosecutor in White County, Arkansas,…
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Lessons From the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Approach to Vaccine Delivery
United Nations Foundation Jul 28, 2022Against the backdrop of birds of paradise, the Congo River, and women dressed in colorful Liputa dresses, I arrived in Kinshasa well aware of a heartbreaking fact: that the Democratic…
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Click here for more.Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) seeks to ensure health and well-being for all, at every…
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Returning to Medicine’s Roots Could Help Fill Drug Discovery Gaps
The Conversation Jul 28, 2022While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern medicine as we know it today got going only in the 19th and 20th centuries. So…
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Differentiated Services Are Necessary for HIV Response
Degrees Jul 27, 2022Over the past decade, there have been remarkable advances in the HIV prevention, treatment and epidemic control tools used by the global community working to address HIV. Investments in scientific…
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Improving the Efficacy of Telehealth
Brookings Jul 27, 2022The United States has long struggled with a health care system that is both expensive and often inaccessible when it comes to providing certain populations with equitable care. The White…
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