Ideas Massachusetts tackles flaws that cost lives during the pandemic “Covid made the case clearly that public health infrastructure is really important.”
Opinion What should happen to doctors who spread misinformation? So far, medical boards have been hands-off.
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 Mapping every square kilometer of air pollution in India Siddhartha Mandal’s team estimates air quality and how it affects health.
Ideas 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.
Feature Making the invisible visible How better data, more access, and community-based solutions can drive health equity
Opinion Digital redlining perpetuates health inequity. Here’s how we fix it. Not all internet service is created equal, especially for marginalized communities.
Feature 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.
Opinion Mpox offers another chance to confront vaccine inequity Expanding vaccine manufacturing in Africa could address longstanding disease control problems.
Feature The battle against tuberculosis will be won or lost in India Experts say the country could be a model for the world. Instead, its TB fight has floundered.
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.
Feature “People forget about the fathers.” In the barren world of men’s grief, the Sad Dads Club allows fathers to mourn openly.
Opinion To break cycles of trauma, we need family-friendly addiction treatment The surging number of children of opioid users in foster care is leading to worse health outcomes.
Opinion Could the media stop avoiding public health, please? Politicians are ignoring the greatest public health crisis in a century, and journalists are letting them.
Ideas Public health vs. politics Increasingly, people’s health choices align with their political identities rather than medical advice.
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.
Research Researchers look closer at the placenta A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.
Ideas 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.
Feature Weaving data into the fabric of public health The field is finding new and creative approaches to how it uses data.
Ideas The path to more equitable AI Health leaders discuss how to prevent public health haves and have-nots.