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 [...]
Using Stories to Humanize the Refugee Crisis
By Sheila Burt Following a brief post in September, Sheila Burt reports in more detail on “Forced From Home,” a Doctors Without Borders exhibition that aims to educate [...]
Public Health in the News (7/29/18 – 8/4/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The Clinton Health Access Initiative is making routine HIV tests more accessible, especially in places such as Africa. A new [...]
Public Health in the News (5/20/18 – 5/26/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization, for the first time, published a list of 113 diagnostic tests considered essential to any [...]
Public Health in the News (12/31/17 – 1/6/18)
By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor Global The World Health Organization has approved an effective and inexpensive typhoid vaccine for global use. National The American [...]
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 [...]
Public Health in the News (5/21/17 – 5/27/17)
By Grace Bellinger – Blog Editor Global Report for all countries shows that the United States has much room for improvement in measure of global mortality. The World [...]
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