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Deferred Enforced Departure status holder Marie Zar, who works as a nurse’s assistant, gets ready for work, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on March 29, 2019.

How Anti-Immigration Measures Could Deplete the U.S. Health Workforce

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The role of immigrants in health care has become more critical because of a worsening worker shortage

An Afghan nurse prepares serum drops for a victim of an earthquake in a hospital.

Outlasting the Taliban's Ban on Women's Medical Education

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The education ban has kept new female talent from entering Afghanistan's under-resourced health-care sector

Transitioning Afghanistan’s Health Sector: The Urgent Need for Taliban’s Responsibility

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Moving from short-term donor funding to Taliban-supported lasting solutions

Transitioning Afghanistan’s Health Sector: The Urgent Need for Taliban’s Responsibility

Waste-to-Energy for U.S. Military Bases

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A new technology that could replace burn pits in U.S. overseas military bases

Waste-to-Energy for U.S. Military Bases

The Life of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

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A review of "Bike Riding in Kabul," Jamie Bowman's unexpectedly humorous memoir of life as a foreign aid worker

The Life of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

Measles is Raging In Afghanistan

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A nationwide vaccination campaign is urgently needed, say CDC measles experts

Measles is Raging In Afghanistan

Mitigating Malnutrition

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An arresting global surge in the number of people experiencing hunger and what's behind it

Mitigating Malnutrition

The New Animated Film "Flee" Will Change How You Think About the Refugee Experience

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The documentary tells the real-life story of a man who fled Afghanistan as a child

The New Animated Film "Flee" Will Change How You Think About the Refugee Experience

"Last to Leave and the First to Die"

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Afghanistan's LGBTQI+ community needs support

"Last to Leave and the First to Die"

How 9/11 Transformed Aid and Global Health Programs in Fragile States

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A conversation with global governance expert Stewart M. Patrick

How 9/11 Transformed Aid and Global Health Programs in Fragile States

From Synergies to Tragedies: 9/11, Terrorism, and Pathogenic Threats

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After the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, efforts to mesh counterterrorism and public health have failed

From Synergies to Tragedies: 9/11, Terrorism, and Pathogenic Threats

The Afghanistan Disaster and U.S. Foreign Policy on Global Health

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The Taliban's triumph has terrible implications for past, present, and future U.S. foreign policy on global health

The Afghanistan Disaster and U.S. Foreign Policy on Global Health