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Environment
The conference created a "loss and damage" fund but failed on mitigation and adaptation

COP27 Produced a Triple Burden for Climate Policy—And That's Bad News for Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The conference created a "loss and damage" fund but failed on mitigation and adaptation

Governance
Indonesian President Joko Widodo welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden on the second day of the G20 Indonesia Summit events at the Ngurah Rai Forest Park, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on November 16, 2022.

At Bali, the G20 Confronts Multidimensional Crises with Empty Diplomatic Rhetoric

by David P. Fidler

The summit revealed the G20's and global health's vulnerabilities in a geopolitical world

Loretta Lynn waves after performing the song "Miss being Mrs." at the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 26, 2004.
Gender

Loretta Lynn and Beyond: Reproductive Rights in Country and Folk Music

by Isabella Turilli

A slideshow of songs highlighting the once taboo topics of birth control, virginity, and divorce in rural America

Dr. Anthony Fauci is pictured
Governance

Overcoming Cacophony in Public Health Communication after COVID-19

by Scott C. Ratzan

Communication failures during the pandemic require strategic attention

Corrections officer Anthony Willingham displays Naloxone nasal spray, part of an opioid anti-overdose medicine kit for inmates to take with them upon release, before a training session for inmates at the Queensboro Correctional Facility in Queens, New York, U.S., April 9, 2018.
Governance

Opioid Overdoses Are Reaching New Highs in Washington, DC

by Isabella Turilli

The U.S. capital's opioid crisis is fueled by a lack of comprehensive public policy

a young man wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and a blue surgical face mask, sits on a plastic chair outside a mobile TB testing clinic
Governance

Why the Global Fund Is Important to U.S. Foreign Policy

by Mark P. Lagon

The Global Fund is pivotal to tackling current pandemics and emerging threats

A man using a smart phone walks through London's Canary Wharf financial district in the warm yellow evening light, casting a shadow in London, United Kingdom, on September 28, 2018.
Governance

Moving the Needle on Health Disinformation

by Claire Wardle

Preventing harmful health information requires transparency not regulation

A community police officer in blue jeans squats low to the ground and holds out two hands full of shiny metal 45mm caliber bullets
Governance

A Gram Per Gun

by José Pablo Ampudia

How U.S. guns fuel Mexican cartels' drug empire

President Joe Biden delivers a speech at a wooden podium while wearing a dark blue suit with a white shirt and striped tie
Governance

Changing Foreign Policy on Cyberspace: Lessons for U.S. Global Health Engagement

by David P. Fidler

Proposals to transform U.S. cyber foreign policy can inform rethinking global health engagement

CDC biologists a and Congolese scientist wear blue surgical gowns and respirators, as they examine animals caught in the jungle who may carry the MonkeyPox virus, in Manfuette, Republic of Congo on August 29, 2017
Environment

Monkeypox Timeline

by Lillian Posner, Isabella Turilli

A frequently updated tracker of emerging developments from the beginning of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak

a monkeypox vaccination sign is seen in a parking lot
Governance

The United States Plays Catch-Up on Monkeypox

by Luciana Borio

The monkeypox epidemic will not burn out unless public health action is taken

Abortion rights supporters holding pink and green signs face the white columns of the U.S. Supreme Court Building as they demonstrate against the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization ruling in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022.
Gender

U.S. Abortion Law and Dissenting from the Norm

by Samantha Kiernan, Lillian Posner

The United States is an outlier on abortion access

A woman in a red coat and blue mask checks her phone as she walks by a stall with colorful children's puppets
Governance

How the U.S. COVID-19 Response Lost the Plot After Omicron

by Samantha Kiernan, Haley Lescinsky, Joseph L. Dieleman, Thomas J. Bollyky

The reasons why the United States is struggling with COVID-19 are changing

A white hand with the cuff of a blue jacket reaches out to tie an orange ribbon onto a chain-link fence covered in orange ribbons in honor of those killed by gun violence
Governance

Better Mental Health Care Is Unlikely to Fix America's Gun Problem

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

But reducing alcohol use, promoting gun-free homes, and curbing domestic violence hold promise