Widows in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
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Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
When schools shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, moms took on the burden of supporting students at home.
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As the world locked down and a country’s racial reckoning heated up, this social scientist refined her approach to studying the lives of Black moms.
Socioeconomic and cultural data can help governments predict and slow the spread of the next pandemic.
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Many governments, including the US, already collect and make public population statistics that could help them prepare for the next pandemic.
Children play in a cabbage patch near their home in Modderspruit, near Rustenburg, South Africa.
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The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.