Neighbourhood planning with community engagement is now treated as a barrier to better cities. For disadvantaged neighbourhoods, this shift threatens to perpetuate inequities.
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Historical housing discrimination in Detroit persists today and causes disparities in health outcomes. Policies are making a difference, but more needs to be done.
Community-engaged research was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, meaning researchers faced serious challenges when their results were most needed: during a public health crisis.
Wall Street and big law firms are famous for their hard-charging, cutthroat work cultures. Here’s one reason they should reconsider.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
The last decade has seen no measurable change in global preterm birth rates in any region of the world.
Higher levels of income inequality in youth are associated with increased ‘deaths of despair’ in young Canadians.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations requires talking about it with children now, and helping them understand the causes of economic inequality.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Reducing air pollution from cars and light trucks would pay big health dividends for low-income and minority communities. A new survey shows how to get more drivers of color into electric vehicles.
Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.
Noise pollution is a serious problem, and cars make a lot of it. But roads are also a factor.
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
‘Smart’ solutions to urban solid waste are creating serious challenges for low-income women waste workers in India.
For people who struggle to meet their basic needs, it will take a lot more than simple psychological exercises to flourish. It will take systemic change.
The mental health impact of the pandemic has not affected everyone equally. An equitable approach to mental health promotion, prevention and treatment can help ensure equitable access to services.
Governance structures that provide opportunities for people to contribute to decision-making would also enhance people’s abilities to control important factors in their life.
Ottawa’s travel ban against African countries made clear its underlying policy: What matters is not your test result, but where you’ve been. It’s yet another example of anti-Africa discrimation.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Urbanism and Infrastructure, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Assistant professor of public policy, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University. Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University, Monash University
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Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, BMRI & Disciplne of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Chair Country Health Research and Innovation, Curtin University
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Managerial Economics, University of Zurich
