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UAEM UCLA students organize outside the Board of Regents meeting on the campus to demand they drop the patent on a life-saving prostate cancer drug.

Student-Led Activism Transforming the Access to Medicines Movement

by Ambika Verma

Universities are crucial allies to the global movement pushing to broaden access to vaccines

Gender
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 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