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    The WHO We Need for the Next Pandemic

    by Nina Sun, Joe Amon

    The World Health Organization should be more independent, collaborate with NGOs, and increase emphasis on human rights

    The shadow of a girl receiving an evening meal from a humanitarian service center is cast on a wall in front of her family home in Russeifa, Jordan, on April 28, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Picture shows the girl's shadow on an old wall. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
    Governance

    All Bets Are Off for Measuring Pandemic Preparedness

    by Sawyer Crosby, Joseph L. Dieleman, Samantha Kiernan, Thomas J. Bollyky

    Three standard measures don't predict how countries fare in COVID-19—so how do we better prepare for the next pandemic?

    A player checks his cards during the finals of the Russian Masters Poker Cup at the Azov-City, Russia, gambling zone, south of Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don, on September 23, 2010. Photo shows a pair of hands holding up the corners of two cards to reveal a pair of aces. A large stack of chips is in the background. REUTERS/Vladimir Konstantinov
    Environment

    Smoggy Cities

    by Haydn Welch

    Ghostly images of some of the world's most polluted metropolises

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    Governance

    A Global Imperative for Local Support

    by Charles Holmes

    The novel coronavirus pandemic raises the stakes for strengthening local partners and capacity to deliver health care

    A person with HIV/AIDS is helped to his bedroom by caregivers from a community home-based care team visiting him at his home in Matero township on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia on April 17, 2012. The picture shows the torso of a man wearing a loose-fitting light blue shirt being helped by two other people. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
    Gender

    Reproductive Rights Are at a Crossroads in a COVID-Weary World

    by Megan Daigle

    Some countries have improved access and care, while others have floundered 

    Guajajara women wear protective masks to prevent the spread of COVID at a community school in the village of Morro Branco in Maranhão, a state in northeastern Brazil on October 4, 2020. Photo by Adriano Machado with REUTERS
    Governance

    A Virus Hunter's Struggle for Respect in Post-COVID China

    by Yanzhong Huang

    Zhang Yongzhen's recent ordeal is an interplay of personal, cultural, institutional, and political factors

    A guard stands at the gate of the Shanghai Public Clinical Center Shanghai, where the coronavirus patients are quarantined, in Shanghai, China February 17, 2020.
    Trade

    A Truce in the Trade War Will Save American Lives

    by Susan Shirk, Yanzhong Huang

    Immediately lifting all tariffs on personal protection equipment will enable doctors and nurses to safely do their work

    Masks are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China January 31, 2020. New York City alone could face a shortage of millions of masks in the coming months. The image shows a human hand with two bright orange bandaids on the thumb and middle finger picking its way across a huge pile of masks. REUTERS/Aly Song
    Governance

    During This Pandemic, It Is Us that Our Children Need Protection From

    by Gwendolyn Thong, Alfred M. Wu

    Looking at resilience and mental health across Singaporeans during the pandemic

    A parent carrying a child dressed in cartoon themed pajamas crosses a street in the rain in Singapore on January 10, 2021.
    Governance

    All Focus Must Turn to Health-Care Workers Now

    by Amanda McClelland

    To save ourselves we need to protect the people who risk everything and sacrifice their own safety to save everyone else

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    Governance

    Coronavirus in Europe: Who If Not Us?

    by Ilona Kickbusch, Susan Bergner

    Can the EU balance internal recovery with geopolitical influence and lift its gaze towards the international sphere?

    George Washington is seen with a printed medical mask on the one-dollar bill near fifty-Euro banknotes in this illustration created during the coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020. The photo shows a bunch of paper money, dollars and euros, with a blue surgical-style mask on one of the bills. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
    Governance

    Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

    by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

    Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

    Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
    Governance

    Supporting Kids With Long COVID as They Head Back to School

    by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Maja Pašović

    Schools will need to accommodate children with lingering post-virus symptoms

    A child arrives at a primary school on the first day of the new school year after summer break in Vertou, France, on September 2, 2021.