Who Controls Science?
Competing narratives emerge not because evidence is inherently ambiguous, but because power determines which knowledge is visible, legitimate, or silenced.
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Lessons in Resilience
People who have been forcibly displaced by conflicts — such as those in Syria and Ukraine — can show Americans how to thrive despite adversity.
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What Medicine Can Learn From Journalism About Restoring Trust
To rebuild public confidence, health institutions might take a page from the media’s efforts to embrace nuance, transparency, cooperation and a focus on solutions.
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An Increasing Number of Immigrants in the US Are Avoiding Going to the Doctor
Making people afraid to get care does not protect the health system. It merely ensures that the care delivered is the most expensive, least effective and most desperate kind.
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Letter From Geneva: America Is Retreating From Systems It Still Needs
The world still relies on the UN health agency during emergencies. It simply does so now with fewer illusions about political solidarity.
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Visa Apartheid in an Age of Populism
Border regimes are a structural threat to global health.
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Recipes for Change
Healthy food programs often focus on changing individual habits. But eating is a social activity, connecting people and nourishing communities.
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The DoorDash Driver
Health Access Programs offer basic services to uninsured residents. But delivery drivers are often too busy, too indebted and too scared to take advantage of them.
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Not All Hungers Are the Same
On the Papuan plantation frontier, industrial oil palm concessions are creating new ways of thinking about hunger: as a force that haunts, as a form of shame, as a source of anger.
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What Will Bring the Next Generation of Global Health Students Hope?
Students can learn from past social movements so they can rebuild global health creatively and without restraint.