Yemen is on the edge of a cliff. Will COVID-19 push it over?
By Giancarlo Atassi, MPH; Nina Zhou, BA; and Alexandra Isaia, BS COVID-19 continues to take a significant toll on the global community. In the United [...]
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Entertainment as a Tool for Health Behavior Change
By Sapna Suresh The radio soap opera Toma mi Mano, a 156-episode Spanish-language program broadcast across all 22 departments in Guatemala, features Ruth: a young woman who [...]
Phages: friends or foes? A newly discovered mechanism where bacteria use bacteriophages to work against our immune system
By Jackson Campbell March 8th, 2019 marked the ninety year and six-month anniversary of Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin, the [...]
Two birds, one stone: The unmet need of targeted interventions for poor sleep and smoking habits in young adults
By Misol Kwon, RN, BSN Although the prevalence of conventional cigarette smoking has been decreasing over the last couple of decades [1,2], electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) [...]
Curing genetic diseases from the inside-out: The prospect of CRISPR-Cas gene therapy to treat hearing loss
By Jackson Campbell Genetically Inherited Diseases (GIDs) constitute to a large number of the debilitating and deadly threats to human health we face in the world today. From [...]
Cutting Costs While Increasing Coverage: A Spotlight on International Health Systems
By: Shannon Wagner In the United States, the growing inequality between the rich and the poor creates insurmountable barriers to those lacking economic and social resources. [...]
The Intertwined Fates of Public Health and Large-Scale Disasters
By Jacqueline Patterson and Margaret Walker, NPHR Blog editors Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma have enraptured the media as of late, placing the issue of the United [...]
Stepping into a Paradigm Shift and Finding a Glimmer of Hope in Lebanon
Anna Maitland, JD, MA In March of this year, a nine-person research team from Northwestern University’s Pritzker and Kellogg schools – consisting of law and business [...]
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