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Food
a woman stands in front of a kfc

Overpowering the Food Industry

by Eduardo J. Gómez

The presidential politics of childhood obesity in emerging markets

Poverty
Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, cooks using firewood outside her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022.

Tackling Air Pollution Starts at Home

by Sumi Mehta, Michael Brauer, Chen Chen, Tom Frieden

Rapidly developing countries critically need clean household energy  

A production scientist works with samples during a visit by representatives of the Medicines Patent Pool, France and other European Union member states, at the Afrigen Biologics' site in Cape Town, South Africa, February 3, 2022.
Governance

In Africa, Open Biologics and Tech Transfer Pave the Way for Local Vaccine Manufacturing

by Aggrey Aluso

How the development of Africa's first home-grown mRNA COVID-19 vaccine could shape the future of vaccine innovation

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.
Governance

The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care

a health-care worker in blue scrubs and PPE stands in front of a train car
Governance

Fix It or Forget It

by Emily Bass, Asia Russell

It's not too late to reduce the threat of failure of the World Bank's new pandemic preparedness fund 

Elderly people stand in a row and stretch out their arms as they exercise at a public park in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 9, 2018.
Aging

The Rising Price of Dementia

by Paola Pedroza

As the number of people with dementia grows, families need access to affordable care