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Front Page
Do overdose prevention centers work in the U.S.? Researchers want to know
The first state-approved site in the U.S. will be part of a study on how they affect opioid outcomes.
The culmination of a “silent eldercide going on for decades”
A provocative book puts nursing home COVID-19 deaths under the microscope.
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Environmental Health
New year, new world
An editorial cartoon by Jenna Luecke
Mapping every square kilometer of air pollution in India
Siddhartha Mandal’s team estimates air quality and how it affects health.
Can a $10 billion climate bond address California’s water contamination problem?
Tucked in the bond on the November ballot is an earmark to improve drinking water quality.
Equity
Of mice and women
Decades of male-dominated studies leave women at risk.
Making the invisible visible
How better data, more access, and community-based solutions can drive health equity
Digital redlining perpetuates health inequity. Here’s how we fix it.
Not all internet service is created equal, especially for marginalized communities.
Global Health
To meet demand, blood donation should not rely solely on volunteers
A misalignment between supply and demand especially hurts people in low-income nations.
What’s working in the 19 countries on track to help end AIDS
Lessons from Botswana, Cambodia, Zambia, and Malawi
How the U.S. election has an outsized effect on global reproductive health
U.S. politics harm women by tying health workers’ hands, even in countries where abortion care is legal.
Snapshots
Bite-sized views of big ideas in public health
Mental Health
Migrant children struggle to express themselves in words. Enter art and play.
Research shows art and play therapy can help children process complex trauma.
Cities hope adding mental health workers to emergency response will reduce violence
Ryan Levi, a reporter for Tradeoffs, talks about Durham’s HEART program.
“People forget about the fathers.”
In the barren world of men’s grief, the Sad Dads Club allows fathers to mourn openly.
Policy & Practice
What should happen to doctors who spread misinformation?
So far, medical boards have been hands-off.
Massachusetts tackles flaws that cost lives during the pandemic
“Covid made the case clearly that public health infrastructure is really important.”
Mixed lessons from intentionally infecting people with COVID-19
Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks.
Reproductive Health
Battling period poverty in Kenya
“This is what you can do with this position, as a woman in power.”
Hispanic women are less likely to get PrEP treatment. A new intervention could change that.
Latinas make up 17 percent of U.S. women, but 21 percent of those living with HIV.
Adopt-A-Mom wants to eliminate pregnancy disparities in North Carolina
The program responds to racial and insurance-based inequities in maternal care in Guilford County.
Tech & Innovation
Social media is the new public health frontline. Let’s treat it that way.
We must give influencers tools and training to deliver accurate health information.
Health care AI, intended to save money, turns out to require a lot of expensive humans
You need people, and more machines, to make sure the new tools don’t mess up.
Community information exchanges quench health data droughts
Data-sharing models from San Diego and Chicago could provide a roadmap for the rest of the country.