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A young woman with dark hair in a black coat and white mask holds a black phone in one hand and covers part of her face with the other. She looks serious as she sits on grey stone steps in Warsaw, Poland.

Poland's New 'Pregnancy Registry' Raises Red Flags

by Lillian Posner

Some women feel their privacy and autonomy are on the line

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

Countering COVID-19 Misinformation in Africa

by Tim Nguyen, Sergio Cecchini

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

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
Governance

The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19

by Kevin O’Rourke, Alize Ferrari

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

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
Poverty

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

by Tom Frieden, John Nkengasong

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

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
Governance

Big Data Requires Big Thinking on Data Governance

by Stefan Germann

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

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
Food

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

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Christopher Troeger, Theo Vos

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

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
Governance

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song

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

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
Gender

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

by Marleen Vellekoop, Meshack Acholla, Julia Hanne

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

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
Gender

Data for Contraceptive Security Decision-Making

by Thidiane Ndoye, Michael A. Cohen

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

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
Governance

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

by Tom Frieden

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

Share of COVID-19 tests that are positive globally. The image is a graph. CC-BY/Our World in Data
Governance

COVID-19 This Week: The Tide Is Beginning to Turn, But Is Still Very High

by Tom Frieden

The better we understand coronavirus, our risk, and our response with real-time intelligence, the better we can fight it

Chairs are pictured on top of tables in a classroom at Watlington Primary School during the last day of school, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Watlington, Britain, on July 17, 2020. The photo shows a number of tables with chairs stacked upon them. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
Governance

COVID-19 This Week: On the Brink

by Tom Frieden

The United States is a global outlier—a long way from vaccines or containment, even as we consider reopening schools

The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive
Governance

Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

by Tom Frieden

We won’t stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

Data reporting exists but is "woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete," like these mostly empty COVID-19 testing kits at the CDC serology testing site in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Poverty

One Weak Link and the Whole Thing Falls Apart

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux

A more structured, uniform, and comprehensive U.S. approach is needed to collect, report, and analyze coronavirus data