Alessandro Ossola – Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, reports emerged of a global …
Anna Nagurney – Professor and Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst The blood supply in the U.S. is now at its lowest level in over a decade. Many of the nation’s …
Jane Namukobe – Lecturer, Makerere University Herbal medicine is used all over the world, and Uganda is no exception. Figures suggest that up to 79% of the East African nation’s population favours …
Steven Friedman – Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg Now, and in the past, “following the science” on COVID-19 has landed South Africa in trouble. This is not an …
Chad Williams – Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University Colin Powell knew where he fit in American history. The former …
Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March …
Glenn J Rapsinski – Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Pittsburgh The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the way people live around the world. As of …
Lana Ruvolo Grasser – Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Fellow, Wayne State University A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled …
Written by Edna Ledesma – Assistant Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Alfonso Morales – Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of …
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 …