Public Health

Dr. Christelle Azier-Pohoun of BIO-MEDICAL, a center that provides medical visits for people who pass the driver's license, speaks to a patient during a consultation in Abidjan, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon. - RC1BC64E9F30

Africa in focus

Health in Africa: 5 priorities for the G-7 Biarritz Summit

Monday, August 19, 2019

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Future Development

Can public works help fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Paul M. Bisca and Paul Bance

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Dietician Krista Mangan prepares an examination room at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) office inside a Salt Lake County health clinic in South Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2, 2013. The Salt Lake County government appropriated special funding to continue to offer certain aspects of federally funded WIC program for a week while many other WIC offices in Utah have been shut due the federal government shutdown, according to county authorities. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH BUSINESS) - GM1E9A30MYF01

Up Front

Reducing access to contraception won’t reduce the abortion rate

Katherine Guyot and Isabel V. Sawhill

Monday, July 29, 2019

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Public Health

A systematic review of systems dynamics and agent-based obesity models: Evaluating obesity as part of the global syndemic

Alexandra Morshed, Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, Ross A. Hammond, and Peter S. Hovmand

Friday, July 19, 2019

Reports

DATE IMPORTED: March 06, 2019 Police officers patrol a street after a blockade set by members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel to repel security forces during an anti-fuel theft operation in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Mexico

AMLO’s security policy: Creative ideas, tough reality

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

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Public Health

The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: The Lancet Commission report

doctor and patient

Health Care Reform

Next steps in health reform: Hospitals, Medicaid expansion, and racial equity

Dayna Bowen Matthew

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

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Report

Longer, more optimistic lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States

Kelsey J. O’Connor and Carol Graham

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Global Health

Measuring revenue streams and profitability for HIV drugs

Darrell M. West and Jake Schneider

Monday, April 16, 2018

Blog Posts

A health worker sprays disinfectant near a suspected Ebola patient holding a baby at an Ebola treatment centre in the Eastern Congolese town of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 27, 2019. Picture taken March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC1D9E7A2400

Order from Chaos

Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo: It’s more than a public health problem

Michael T. Evans

Monday, July 1, 2019

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Education Plus Development

Neglect of children at the border has long-term consequences

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Virginia Rauh

Friday, June 28, 2019

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Up Front

Evidence for addressing the opioid epidemic: Rounding out the picture

Colleen Barry and Richard Frank

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

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