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Migration
Cover of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

Going Viral

by Luke Shors

An Interview with author Alina Chan on her new book about the origins of COVID-19

Migration
People walk near Chinese lanterns ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival at Tai O, in Hong Kong, China September 14, 2021.

The Global Sentiment of Gratitude

by Caroline Kantis

The wondrous ways communities around the world give thanks

COVID-19 street art in Navi Mumbai, India, on March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Environment

The Art of a Pandemic

by Mary Brophy Marcus

COVID-19 street art from around the world

Twila Cassadore teaching her niece to forage for food on the San Carlos Apache Nation, Arizona.
Food

New Netflix Release "Gather" Explores the Fight to Revitalize Native Foodways

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Think Global Health talks with the film's director about food sovereignty

Aftershocks book cover
Governance

Pandemics, Pathological Politics, and International Order

by David P. Fidler

A review of the new book "Aftershocks" by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street
Aging

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.
Environment

“Less a Leper Than I Have Been”

by Christopher Lee Manes

Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America

A boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district on July 10, 2014. Activists said the crater was caused by barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. The photo shows a boy leaping in mid-air into a water-filled hole. The water is muddy brown, and two other boys can be seen swimming in the hole with their heads bobbing out. Surrounding them is rubble. This is a powerful image. REUTERS/Hosam Katan
Gender

Baby in a Bomb Shelter

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Oscar nominated documentary “For Sama” gives powerful if gruesome glimpse of what it’s like to raise a kid in a war zone

Close-up photo of the surface of a silicon semiconductor chip: WELLCOME COLLECTION/Paul Griggs. CC BY
Governance

Global Health by the Numbers: December 2019

by Thomas J. Bollyky

Celebrity photo of Anna Paquin at the premiere of The Irishman in London, 2019
Environment

TV Review: Global Warming at the End of The Affair

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Showtime ends daring, bleak series with desperation, hope, and a future long island threatened by rising sea levels