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Trade

The links between trade and health extend back to the earliest human settlements, but globalization has brought these spheres together as never before. This section examines the issues that have led to an even closer intersection between trade and health, asks how they impact the poor, and explores the tensions that arise between the goals of protecting and promoting health and generating wealth through trade.

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Build an Oxygen Ecosystem

COVID drew attention to the need for medical oxygen. Now donors need a plan to make it sustainable

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Insights From India on Expanding Global Vaccine Production

The Indian pharmaceutical industry offers lessons for building vaccine-production capacity in developing countries

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What Big Cannabis Can Learn from Big Tobacco

The budding cannabis industry should take steps to protect and inform consumers

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African Public Health and Future Philanthropy

Africa deserves philanthropy that involves its communities and recognizes their insights

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Health Care’s Climate Footprint: Saving Lives without Costing the Earth

How climate change and health supply chains are inherently connected

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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: Building Supply Chain Resilience in Africa

Absorbing the lessons of COVID-19 requires adopting a broader and longer-term perspective

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Solving for Oxygen

Why policymakers should work to make medical oxygen more accessible

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COVID-19 Lessons, Free Trade and Industrial Politics: The Globalization Mismatch

Why a new approach to international cooperation and globalization should be developed

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Fentanyl and Foreign Policy

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

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More Harm Than Good

Why cigarette filters should be eliminated from the commercial cigarette market

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Why Investing in Cold Chain Technologies Will Improve Health Outcomes

Failure to maintain an unbroken cold chain is among the top reasons vaccines are discarded.

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A "Radical Plan" to Produce Vaccines Locally

Science reporter Amy Maxmen discusses "the hub" and the making of her new podcast for Big Picture Science