Newsletter

Think Global Health

Newsletter

Think Global Health

New Zealand

Latest

The End of New Zealand's Zero-COVID Policy
Governance

The End of New Zealand's Zero-COVID Policy

by Jennifer Curtin

Many worry it will magnify existing inequalities

A man sanitizes a privacy booth to fight the spread of COVID-19 at a polling station in New York City, United States, on October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Governance

Holding Incumbents Accountable: COVID-19 at the Ballot Box

by Samantha Kiernan, Caroline Kantis

Lessons from elections during the pandemic in Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, and South Korea

Governance

Midsummer for the Season—But Not the Coronavirus

by William A. Haseltine
U.S. President Donald J. Trump swings a wooden baseball bat, celebrating a new jobs report, as he attends a "Spirit of America Showcase" event at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2020. The photo shows the president hamming it up with people staffing booths and swinging a red bat. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Governance

Taiwan's Response to COVID-19 and the WHO

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Thomas J. Bollyky
Taoyuan health worker Wang Tsui-lien rides a scooter to deliver care packages and to check on people who have been ordered to be under self-quarantine, in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on March 25, 2020. Photo shows a motorcycle on an abandoned street in an urban setting. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Governance

What We Talk About When We Talk About Coronavirus

by Roopa Dhatt, Ilona Kickbusch
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron all giving recent press briefings on COVID-19. The composite photo shows the four leaders speaking variously at podiums in their countries. REUTERS/Michel Kappeler/Markku Ulander(Lehtikuva)/Kevin Lamarque/Loic Venance
Governance

The Global Experience of Gun Control

by Vin Gupta
Old coffee cans of shotgun shells dropped off to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at the “Gifts for Guns” buyback in Compton, California on January 21, 2013. Picture shows two bright red, rusted out coffee tins filled to the brim with shotgun shells, red shells in the first tin, blue in the second. REUTERS/David McNew