Tag: Public health
Biden’s infrastructure plan targets lead pipes that threaten public health across...
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system...
How social media turns online arguments between teens into real-world violence
Caitlin Elsaesser, University of Connecticut
The deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January exposed the power of social...
4 steps to reaching Biden’s goal of a July 4th with...
David R. Holtgrave, University at Albany, State University of New York; Amy Lauren Fairchild, The Ohio State University, and Cheryl Healton, New...
Seat belts and smoking rates show people eventually adopt healthy behaviors...
Randy P. Juhl, University of Pittsburgh
Why do we do things that are bad for us – or not do things that are good for...
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
African health research needs support: here’s one programme that’s working
Jude Igumbor, University of the Witwatersrand
African countries bear a disproportionate burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases. More than two thirds of people living with...
Malaria: new map shows which areas will be at risk because...
Mark Smith, University of Leeds and Chris Thomas, University of Lincoln
Of an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are...
Big Tobacco’s decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won’t stop its...
Genevieve Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney
After a decade of legal challenges by the tobacco lobby, Australia’s pioneering push to eliminate all tobacco advertising finally...
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Celebrity activists get it wrong on Amnesty International’s sex work policy
Rebecca Hiscock, University of Melbourne
Amnesty International’s recent publication of a draft policy recommending the decriminalisation of sex work has been received positively by sex...
