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    A Wake-Up Call for Healthier Design

    by Etta Madete

    Good design principles and simple measures to prevent the spread COVID-19 inspired by African traditional health centers

    Traditional healer Bi Mwanahija Mzee folds root medicine in a piece of paper to give to a mother who complains of her child's constipation in Zanzibar City, Tanzania on January 31, 2019. The photo shows the healer facing the camera and sitting between two other women and a child. REUTERS/Nicky Woo
    Poverty

    Homelessness in Times of Coronavirus—A Way Forward for the United States

    by Parkes Kendrick, Herbert C. Duber

    COVID-19 challenges us to reform affordable housing and social services that support people experiencing homelessness

    With the dome of the U.S. Capitol in the background, a homeless man named Damu stretches on the National Mall in Washington, U.S., May 27, 2020. The photo is striking, with a man in silhouette standing on a hill with his legs spread wide. in the background slightly to his left is the congressional building. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
    Environment

    Coronavirus in Samoa

    by Nicola Hawley

    Serendipitous twist of a tragic 2019 measles outbreak may have left small island nation unusually prepared for COVID-19

    A Samoan beach before the coronavirus crisis—pictured on June 2, 2017 in Saleapaga, Samoa after New Zealand Prime Minister announced a $5.15 million aid package to help boost Samoa's tourism industry. The picture shows a tropical beach in Somoa with gorgeous palm trees and grass huts. GETTY Images/Phil Walter
    Governance

    Wanted: Global Access to Paxlovid

    by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Elizabeth Serieux, Christopher Troeger

    Equitable access to COVID-19 antiviral therapy remains elusive, with many middle-income nations left out

    A security agent wearing a white protective mask, white polo shirt, and black slacks, walks along the shoreline of a white sand beach with crystal blue waters in Cuba
    Governance

    Why the WHO?

    by Chelsea Clinton, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Devi Sridhar

    The World Health Organization is essential to convening scientific experts and the world’s best thinking on COVID-19

    The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, May 18, 2020. The photo shows the WHO HQ. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
    Poverty

    Tentative Victory Against Ebola in Eastern Congo

    by John Campbell

    Success against Ebola through quarantines, contact-tracing, and good hygiene bodes well for future response to COVID-19

    Arlette Kavugho, 40, a mother of six who survived an Ebola infection stands in Katwa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on October 2, 2019 holding 16 months old Kambale Eloge, whose mother died of Ebola. Photo shows Arlette holding the baby in front of a clinic while two other health workers stand in the background. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
    Governance

    Four Failures and an Invasion

    by David P. Fidler

    Comparing responses to COVID-19 and the Ukraine war points to a difficult future for global health

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits an injured Ukrainian serviceman at a military hospital, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 13, 2022.
    Governance

    Why Social Policies Make Coronavirus Worse

    by Emily Mendenhall

    Too late for COVID-19, but strengthening safety nets and health security in U.S. would help us respond to future threats

    A mannequin with a surgical mask on display where a vendor sells packages of masks on a corner in the Chelsea neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City on March 27, 2020. The photo shows a mannequin wearing a blue mask. REUTERS/Mike Segar
    Governance

    Why Aren't Russians Getting Vaccinated?

    by Judy Twigg, Lillian Posner

    A COVID-19 shot has been available for months, yet vaccination rates remain low

    Cathedral Square, or Sobornaya Square, the central square of the Moscow Kremlin as seen on Victory Day, May 7, 2021 in Moscow, Russia.
    Governance

    Global Health Needs a New Approach to Evidence Grading

    by Luke Shors, Amit Chandra

    COVID-19 crisis highlights how some important questions have to be answered without the benefit of experimental studies

    Statue of the Turkish Folkloric Figure Nasreddin Hoca, who looked for his keys in a well-lit place because it was too dark to look for them where they were. Photo shows a statue of the famous figure riding backward on a donkey. GETTY Images/Corbis/Chris Hellier
    Urbanization

    I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

    by Vineet Kumar Sharma

    The unseen mental and emotional cost of the COVID-19 pandemic—chronicled in the journals of one emergency physician

    Health care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 4, 2020. The photo shows two people in blue protective suits wheeling people away from a hospital entrance. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
    Food

    The Voices of the Navajos

    by Jessica Top

    After COVID-19, who will hear the Navajo Nation and address education, water infrastructure, and food insecurity issues?

    Hundreds of petroglyphs cover Newspaper Rock, in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, next to the Naajo Nation, on October 29, 2017. The photo shows a dark rock face covered with hundreds of carved depictions of humans and animals. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen