This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Pandemic preparedness will always be about people’s access to the most basic of health care systems.” That’s Dr. Stephanie Williams, Australia’s Ambassador for Regional Health Security, on the significance of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The impact of the pandemic on world GDP growth is massive. The COVID-19 global recession is the deepest since the end of World War II (Figure 1). The global economy contracted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While 2020 may reluctantly be recalled as one of the most traumatic years in history for many individuals, trauma is, unfortunately, not new. A 2015 report from the National Child…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Julia Gillard served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and is the chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. While serving as Prime Minister,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four hundred…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every time there is a major disease outbreak, one of the first questions scientists and the public ask is: “Where did this come from?” In order to predict and prevent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems IPES-Food, in collaboration with etc. group, recently published a report articulating two possible futures for the global food system. The report, A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, health care workers around the world were in desperate need of personal protective equipment (PPE), virus testing kits, and other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For more than a year, the world’s doctors, nurses, hospitals and health systems have been on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19. Many have served heroically as first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We know the economic impacts of COVID-19 have been severe. Advanced and developing countries alike have experienced massive job losses, economic contraction, falling investments and exports, and declining tourism dollars.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If people don’t have to buy drinking water in bottles, a huge quantity of plastic waste will be diverted. The problem of plastic pollution pouring into the world’s oceans is…