When staff members learn how to acknowledge and talk about their social differences, nonprofits can get better at developing strategies, forming alliances and mobilizing people, a recent study found.
Apple reportedly has policies designed to encourage consumers to touch its products.
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New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.
Black men who have sex with men in Southern states have a low rate of using HIV prevention treatments.
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This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Donations channeled through DAFs follow different patterns than for overall charitable giving.
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With limited vaccines available in early 2021, the CDC had to decide which people received vaccines first. With the help of a supercomputer, researchers have shown that the CDC did an excellent job.
As the rate of tick-borne diseases rises, vaccines that stop ticks in their tracks could be an essential preventive tool.
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The study found that ticks were unable to feed on guinea pigs vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease.
Nearly 80% of participants in FDA-reviewed research trials live in foreign countries.
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Decades of data indicate that over time, the foundations gave less to the founder’s own community and religious causes. But the share of their donations supporting social movements rose.
Bringing together people with different perspectives and roles can sharpen an organization’s vision.
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Overconfidence is often a contributing factor to market crashes, like the financial crisis of 2008.
Public spending aimed at reducing poverty can lead to deep reductions in child maltreatment and could improve overall child well-being.
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Henry T. Puls, University of Missouri-Kansas City y Paul J. Chung, University of California, Los Angeles
Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.
Students who take political science classes in college are more likely to be civically engaged.
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New data suggests that lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships. But the study comes with caveats.
Teachers experienced more positive emotions interacting with their students when schools closed during the pandemic.
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Teachers’ fondness for working with students grew in the early stages of the pandemic, according to a new study that provides a unique before-and-after glimpse at what duties teachers enjoyed most.
Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity; Social and Healty Equity Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York