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Tackling Air Pollution in Africa With Data

Tackling Air Pollution in Africa With Data

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Access to real-time air quality data could address the growing dangers of outdoor air pollution in Africa

Inside the Global Burden of Disease Study

Inside the Global Burden of Disease Study

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IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID

Poland's New 'Pregnancy Registry' Raises Red Flags

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Some women feel their privacy and autonomy are on the line

Poland's New 'Pregnancy Registry' Raises Red Flags

Countering COVID-19 Misinformation in Africa

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On a continent of 1.3 billion people, WHO and partners are working to cut through the noise on social media and dash hea

A health professional works on a computer at a drive-through sample collection center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abuja, Nigeria January 14, 2021.

The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19

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Assessing psychological impacts of coronavirus—the second in a two-part series on the mental health burden of COVID-19

The story title comes from Shakespeare: " The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to"—photo is of British actor Kenneth Branaugh holding a skull in the film Hamlet (1996). The photo shows the actor bathed in orange light and dressed in period garb holding a skull in a contemplative pose. GETTY IMAGES/Mondadori

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

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Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Big Data Requires Big Thinking on Data Governance

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We need concrete guidelines now to secure data privacy and address missing data, missed use of data, and misuse of data

A student watches an online lecture in a digital mobile education library—which provides mobile phones to children who lack access for education during COVID-19 in Mumbai, India, on October 16, 2020. The photo shows a small child at a school desk with a mobile phone on the table in front of them. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

COVID-19 Shows Us It's Time to Tackle Obesity and Overweight

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Lessons and cautionary tales from the anti-smoking movement show us a way to move forward

A man smokes a cigarette next to a mural of a man wearing a protective mask amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 30, 2020. The photo shows a man wearing a mask pulled down around his chin smoking. Next to him is a mural of a worried-looking man in a mask. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

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The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity

They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

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Africa's unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women's health in danger

A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

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Newly launched interactive visualization tool will help measure and track access to contraceptives and guide programs

Jiejin Qiu, six months pregnant with her first baby, poses underwater during a photo shoot at a local wedding photo studio in Shanghai on September 5, 2014—as China began easing its one-child policy. The photo shows the expecting mother floating underwater in a dream-like shot. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

COVID-19 This Week—The Looming Question: Internal Travel Restrictions

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To reduce risk, we must close bars and other indoor spaces, reduce crowds, mask up, wash hands, and increase distancing

Each state's progress towards reduction in symptoms and cases, health system readiness, and increased testing. The image shows a map of the united states with four colors according to outbreak status. SOURCE: Covid Exit Strategy