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Chasing Dreams Amid Shadows

Chasing Dreams Amid Shadows

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In an encounter with a Ghanaian nurse, I saw the dual reality of immigrant life in the United States

India’s Gig Workers

India’s Gig Workers

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The death of a food delivery boy reveals obstacles in health-care benefits

China's Attack on a Top Industrial Health Hazard

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How China is bringing the devastating lung disease pneumoconiosis to its knees

China's Attack on a Top Industrial Health Hazard

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

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National progress on migrant health is expansive, effective, and has helped Thailand avoid the worst of the coronavirus

A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

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COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—they cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by William Young Ottley (1771-1836). The picture is of a pencil drawing of a pig and her pups. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection

Coronavirus and America's Food Supply

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Swift action to ensure worker safety, robust food inspections, and sustained supply chains should be top U.S. priorities

Youtubers wearing masks of pigs film a video at a shopping district, which has fewer people than usual amid the coronavirus outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, on May 19, 2020. The photo shows two people wearing pig masks and dark suits standing with clear plastic umbrellas open. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

COVID-19 and America’s Migrant Workforce

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Need health care and groceries? Congress should protect the immigrant workforce—even if the Trump Administration won't

Migrant worker Cesar Lopez works the fields amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Salinas Valley, California, on March 30, 2020. Picture shows Cesar working with a hoe in his hand. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

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Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira