Feature “When you design roads, that is public health.” Research shows people in the U.S. think traffic deaths are inevitable, but they’re aren’t.
Opinion There’s a way to deal with brain injuries in football. It isn’t safety gear. The NFL says new equipment works, but science disagrees.
Book Way Home invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close A picture of the unrelenting displacement, danger, and exclusion experienced by the unhoused
Feature The new kind of volunteer firefighter How a brigade of locals became a key force in helping protect people from the L.A. wildfires.
Book Hope as a catalyst for change in Climate Futures How public health can move from doomscrolling to action
Opinion Why Black patients are less likely to get life-saving kidney transplants Innate bias, residential segregation, and the high cost of donation are all barriers.
Opinion The neurological impact of being Black in the U.S. A new theory about how racism may lead to faster aging
Feature Can traditional medicine help solve Kenya’s diabetes crisis? The science says yes. Now Kenyan policymakers can provide a model for other low-income countries.
Opinion To meet demand, blood donation should not rely solely on volunteers A misalignment between supply and demand especially hurts people in low-income nations.
Feature What’s working in the 19 countries on track to help end AIDS Lessons from Botswana, Cambodia, Zambia, and Malawi
Feature Migrant children struggle to express themselves in words. Enter art and play. Research shows art and play therapy can help children process complex trauma.
Ideas Cities hope adding mental health workers to emergency response will reduce violence Ryan Levi, a reporter for Tradeoffs, talks about Durham’s HEART program.
Opinion What should happen to doctors who spread misinformation? So far, medical boards have been hands-off.
Ideas Massachusetts tackles flaws that cost lives during the pandemic “Covid made the case clearly that public health infrastructure is really important.”
Feature 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.
People Battling period poverty in Kenya “This is what you can do with this position, as a woman in power.”
Ideas 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.
Feature 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.
Ideas Editorial cartoonists were early U.S. public health advocates Using caricature and humor to stoke outrage in readers—and change.
Opinion 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.
Feature 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.