Tag: Public health
How electric cars can advance environmental justice: By putting low-income and...
Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, The New School
The global auto industry has begun a historic shift from gas- and diesel-fueled cars...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
