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Poverty
students wearing colorful clothing enter a terracotta colored building in Kenya

The Steep Price of Education in Africa

by Emilie Maddison, Angela E. Micah

Education is unaffordable for many families in low- and middle-income countries

Gender
A girl in a red uniform peeks through the fence of her school in Nairobi, Kenya, after the 2021 school year was delayed

COVID-19 Led to Worse Social and Economic Consequences for Women

by Joseph Friedman, Luisa S. Flor, Emmanuela Gakidou

Around the globe, the pandemic set back girls and women in education, work, and homes

Cristina Mamani walks in dried up Lake Poopo, Bolivia—brought on by a warmer, drier climate, say local residents and scientists. Photo taken July 24, 2021.
Environment

A New Era of Climate Action Calls for Climate Doctors

by Stefan Wheat, Jay Lemery

Educating this generation of physicians in climate resilience is critical

The legs and feet of students wearing blue dresses, white stockings, and black shoes can be seen standing in queues at the Viqarunnisa Noon School & College, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 12, 2021.
Governance

Getting School Health Right in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

by Luke Shors, Linda Schultz

School nutrition and health programs took a hit during COVID, now it's time to reinforce these school-based safety nets 

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.
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

Teachers and their children wait to board a government chartered bus bringing people back to schools of countryside towns in Dakar, Senegal on May 28, 2020.
Gender

Gender Equality in the Global Return to School

by Joseph Friedman, Silvia Montoya, Emmanuela Gakidou

COVID-19 is threatening to unravel decades of progress on women's education

U.S. school systems are stuck between two bad choices. A classroom chair rests between two dismantled water fountains at Edmondson Westside High School in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 28, 2020. The photo shows a red chair in a beige-colorored hallway where two porticos feature white porcelain basins now dry for the pandemic. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Environment

The Kids Are (Not) Alright

by Kevin O’Rourke, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Theo Vos

Analyzing the evidence against—and in support of—reopening schools during COVID-19

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
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?

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
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

A mother kisses her child as she walks past graffiti in Mumbai on March 27, 2014. The image is striking with a large, artistic image behind a woman who is walking and holding a child. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Gender

Human Development is the Best Contraceptive—Why India Does Not Need a Two-Child Norm

by Poonam Muttreja

Key to harnessing potential of India is enhancing capabilities of young people and expanding freedoms of girls and women