Inside the Sisyphean crisis of homelessness
Author Tracy Kidder paints an empathic portrait of people experiencing homelessness and one man who chose to care for them—Dr. Jim O’Connell.
Equity
Let’s end the war on obesity
The way America fights obesity is increasing stigma and leading to harmful behavior. For truly better health, we need a new approach.
As climate change erodes land and health, one tribe fights back
After decades of losing coastline, Native Americans look to a young chief to help them find a place in the future.
Nonprofit hospitals are sitting on $14 billion. Let’s spend it on public health.
Half of U.S. hospitals are nonprofit. Their tax-exempt status comes with a requirement to improve community health—but few are meeting it.
The invisible minority: how anti-Roma racism fuels health disparities
More research is needed to determine racism's negative health impacts on the Romani people, says Roma scholar Margareta Matache.
It will take more than food to solve the hunger crisis.
With food insecurity soaring around the world, Oxfam International executive director Gabriela Bucher calls for structural reform.
Women in global health are the labor, but not leaders. Time’s up.
A UN report says it'll take 140 years for women to shatter the global health glass ceiling. We can't afford to wait that long.
The W.H.O.’s pandemic treaty may spark a global health revolution
Money, not health, is driving decision-making around the globe and hurting the Global South. It’s time for change.
How we treat alcohol-related liver disease is unfair—it’s time for change
Rising rates of alcohol-related liver disease means we must change transplant criteria, says medical student John Messinger.
Meet six women fighting to stop the global backslide on women’s rights
The women's rights movement faces growing threats from rising authoritarianism around the world. These six women aren't backing down.