Making room for the input of children and adolescents in responses to the next pandemic would help maintain their health, education, well-being and more.
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Responses to COVID-19 health guidelines have been polarized, including in churches. But religious communities have a long history of involvement in public health.
Years after the Sandy Hook massacre, school shootings are still frequent. Addressing the problem head-on takes more than ‘thoughts and prayers.’
Covid-19 has raised important questions about the many different ways of belonging to a country: where does the boundary between insiders and outsiders lie and who should be in or out?
For many reasons, drug users are shifting from the use of conventional psychoactive drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin to pharmaceutical drugs for non-medical purposes.
Stay-at-home orders and social distancing make technology all the more important for maintaining human connections. They also make it easier for abusers to use technology against their victims.
QAnon refers to the online community that believes in conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and the so-called deep state, and is spreading harmful misinformation about COVID-19.
Massive COVID-19 rapid testing is starting this week in the several cities and regencies of coronavirus hot spot of Jakarta, West Java and Banten focusing on vulnerable groups.
Citizens around the world look warily at the rates of illnesses and deaths at home and abroad as the economic effects of COVID-19 start to hit.
The problematical body-mass index method of measuring fatness means the number of people who are obese has been seriously underestimated.
Concerned about rising cases and spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science has called on government to declare it a national health emergency.
Airport public health officials have got better at screening at ports of entry especially for international arrivals.
When done properly, a simulation exercise is a useful tool for evaluating preparedness for a public health emergency.
The web or network of exposed people can quickly grow from one case if steps aren’t taken early to avoid further onward transmission.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What does this mean for the outbreak response?
Sharing data openly across regions and organisations can help to accelerate preparedness and responses to public health emergencies.
The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
Opioids kill an average of eight people every day in Canada. The federal government must officially declare this a ‘public welfare emergency’ and invest the funds critical to a humane response.
A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
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Tutorial Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, University of Nairobi
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Researcher, consultant, lecturing professor, Drake University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
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Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Trustee, California Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan
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Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Associate professor, Universitas Hasanuddin
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Ophthalmologist at the School of Medicine, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Canada Research Excellence Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Director, Precision Medicine for Africa - A Division of the Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Medical Epidemiologist , Washington State University
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
