Written by Elizabeth Mkandawire and Melody Mentz-Coetzee The number of hungry people in the world grew by a staggering 161 million people in 2020 to 811 million. More than one third …
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Will recent political instability affect Haiti’s earthquake response? We ask an expert
Written by Louise K. Comfort – Professor of Public and International Affairs, former Director of the Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh Parts of Haiti were reduced to rubble …
‘I Don’t Want to Risk My Life for a Paycheck’: Immunosuppressed People Grapple With Returning to Work
By Victoria Knight Elizabeth Groenweghe got a kidney transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting her transplant organ. But these medications also …
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Since reopening campus at the University of California-San Diego last summer, university officials have relied on the tried-and-true public health strategies of testing and contact tracing. But …
Henning Bjornlund – Professor, Business School, University of South Australia; André F. van Rooyen – Principal Scientist, Innovation Systems for the Drylands., CGIAR System Organization; Vibeke Bjornlund – Researcher,School of …
Egide Kalisa – Postdoc, University of Toronto and Andrew Sudmant – PhD candidate and research Fellow in the Economics of Climate Smart Cities research programme, University of Leeds Rising levels …
How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians
Adam Gustafson Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State “I need a change,” Aretha Franklin says at one point in “Respect,” the new film starring Jennifer Hudson as the Queen …
Marlene Daut – Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia Following the July 7, 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse and after one Haitian official requested that the …
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but not by more than a decade
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days, she set a record for oldest human. That record still stands. As statisticians who study demography, we …
Black AIDS Institute Re-Launches Black Leadership Program To Strengthen The HIV Workforce, End The Epidemic
Black AIDS Institute (BAI), the nation’s only Black-led organization focused on ending HIV in Black communities, has re-launched its renowned “African American HIV University” (AAHU) program. Aligned with BAI’s “We The …
