“A healthy environment supports healthy people.”
Wanjira Mathai unpacks connections between climate change and public health.
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Daniel Dawes on why Meharry is adding a school of global health
The new school will focus on the practice, not the theory, of health equity.
The ‘Black Angels’ who helped cure tuberculosis
Professional nurses working in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium changed the course of public health history.
Snapshots
Bite-sized views of big ideas in public health
Environmental Health
The children of Flint, ten years later
They’ll live with the consequences of the water crisis all their lives. They’re angry, but also hopeful. And they’ve been a rallying point for the city.
Microplastics, strokes, and heart attacks
A new study found plastic particles in the arterial plaque of more than half the participants, raising their risk of serious health events.
Resilience in a Moroccan oasis
Photographer M’hammed Kilito captures climate change in a fragile ecosystem.
Policy & Practice
Can nurse practitioners solve the primary care shortage?
Without enough doctors, the U.S. needs other avenues of access.
Practicing an “insurgent politics of care” in rural America
How rural residents and immigrant communities are adapting to the broken rural health landscape on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
A user’s manual for the next pandemic
How to prepare, respond, and rebuild in the aftermath
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Mental Health
A place for Indian women to do… nothing
Namma Katte (“Our Space”) connects mental health, art, and public spaces.
Giving caregivers the tools to cope
The PEARLS program tackles seniors’ burnout with problem-solving.
Exploring the connection between music and mental health
The clubhouse model goes musical.
Reproductive Health
10 minutes with First Lady Fatima Bio
The first lady of Sierra Leone discusses gender-based violence and public health.
Let’s reinvent the rape kit
The “unsung hero” of forensics is stuck in the ’70s. A hackathon could help.
Periods and patriarchy
A chat with Jen Gunter, the internet’s OB/GYN