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Tobacco Control Goes Missing from Indonesia's Presidential Ballot

by Farizal Rizky Muharram

A lack of campaign conversation around the risks of tobacco use worries health experts

Governance
To Prevent the Next Pandemic, Leaders Should Finish What They Started

To Prevent the Next Pandemic, Leaders Should Finish What They Started

by Carolyn Reynolds

A pandemic action priority list

Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian Forces helicopter surveying the area near Mistissini, Quebec, Canada June 12, 2023.
Urbanization

Connecting the Dots Between Climate and Air Quality

by Angel Hsu

Connecting the dots between climate and air quality

A woman attends a church service at Living Faith Church, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abuja, Nigeria March 22, 2020
Governance

The Spiritual Dimension of COVID-19 in Africa

by Ebenezer Obadare

In Nigeria, the pandemic set up a political battlefield between Christian religious leaders and the state

The White House briefing room is dark and empty after the coronavirus task force did not hold a briefing in Washington, U.S., April 25, 2020.
Governance

A "To Undo" List for the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 Response

by Laura Hoemeke, Nandini Oomman, David Neal, Arush Lal, Rohini Rajgopal

The incoming administration must unwind competing messages dispensed by the incumbent and recalibrate health norms

A medical professional shows a negative test for novel coronavirus in front of Mane Garrincha Stadium, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 21, 2020. The photo shows a health worker holding a test at the camera with a stadium in the background. the photographer is using a telephoto/macro lens so that everything is blurred out in the shot, including the man, with the exception of the small plastic cassette-like test. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Trade

Don’t Discriminate Against Those Who Remain Uninfected

by David J. Scheffer

Could barring people who were never sick from returning to work and school perversely incentivize getting COVID-19?