Human Rights

The cultural impacts of a racialized pandemic have created a rejuvenated interest in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) spaces over the past few years. Such interest has opened new doors…

This is a critical moment for education in California. After years of attempting to educate students during a pandemic, districts across California are facing unprecedented teacher shortages and burnout. We need to do…

In 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco launched a study to track the effects of being denied an abortion on women who sought to end their pregnancies.…

What students learn in sex ed has taken on new urgency following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to reverse Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion access up to the states.…

Seven months after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, more than 76,000 Afghans airlifted out of the country are settling into new homes in communities across the United States. Yet…

One big hope about AI as machine learning improves is that we’ll be able to use it for drug discovery — harnessing the pattern-matching power of algorithms to identify promising…

The global COVID-19 response has been unprecedented, but it has also been deeply fragmented and inequitable around the world. While high-income countries are now taking steps to reach the next…

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the field of public health has sprinted a marathon to address the ongoing crisis — we have implemented mass vaccination plans, pushed back against…

Welcoming communities provide a sense of security and stability that allows immigrant families to make good decisions for their wellbeing, while creating a supportive environment to seek help from service…

If you have ever had a painful experience completing a government form, waiting for hours at a DMV during a workday, or filling out online tax or student aid forms,…

In January 2020, Kelly Gilbert felt as if her life was at a standstill. The new mom was suffering from postpartum depression. She had just resigned from her security job…

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…