This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The neighborhoods and communities in which we grow up and live affect our future life outcomes. Yet the push for policymakers to address neighborhood disparities in health and economic outcomes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained widespread support in summer 2020 and COVID-19 disproportionately worsened health and economic outcomes in communities of color, social science research, policy, and programs have accelerated their focus on racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This November marked the annual Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week—aptly timed to coincide with the season of giving, celebrations of harvest plenty, and, in much of the country, the arrival…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Patients treated at rural emergency departments have similar outcomes to those receiving care at urban ERs for several important emergency conditions, including stroke and heart attack, a new study shows.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We must take the opportunity offered by events to reconfigure the world’s food systems – and that involves seeing them as systems When we first sat down to conceptualise this issue, we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether individual donors or major foundations, funder’s attitudes and behaviors have a huge impact on the ability organizers and nonprofits have to do their work. At best, it’s a constraint…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s December and your foundation wants to fulfill its payout requirement within the calendar year. What can you do? Tips for meeting your minimum: Ask your local community foundation, association of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Change is borne of experience. Lasting change is borne of enlightenment. The divide between the two is often quite significant. Change is the subject of the recent report from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Use of antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV infection – called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP – is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With college students back on campus, and COVID-19 with us for the foreseeable future, it has become increasingly clear that educators need to develop a new definition of safer sex.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, I had the opportunity to join a passionate panel of advocates and experts at the inaugural TIME 100 Health Summit, to discuss both the strategy and urgency needed…