Tag: Public health
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...
Mexico City buried its rivers to prevent disease and unwittingly created...
Elena Delavega, University of Memphis
Mexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to...
How to protest during a pandemic and still keep everyone safe...
Thomas A. Russo, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
“WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC,” Denver Black Lives Matter activist Tay Anderson...
How Apple and Google will let your phone warn you if...
Johannes Becker, Boston University and David Starobinski, Boston University
On April 10, Apple and Google announced a coronavirus exposure notification system that will be built...
Parks matter more than ever during a time of sickness –...
Richard leBrasseur, Dalhousie University
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans’ relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
