How Anti-science and Anti-vaxxers Cause Avoidable COVID Deaths
If we do not learn from the past and seize new opportunities and scientific breakthroughs, we are doomed to incur ...
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COVID-19 Deepens Structural Inequities in American Special Education
When Impakter first asked me to write a piece on special education, race, and the COVID-19 pandemic, I knew what ...
COVID-19: Two Sides of China in Global Health
Watching how the COVID-19 pandemic developed, it is fair to ask what was the role of China in global health: ...
Response to COVID-19: Venerable Health Institutions Make Mistakes
Yes, venerable health institutions make mistakes…The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in health institutions that traditionally are looked to for ...
The Silent Killer: Education as a Means of Combating Heart Disease
As medicine continues to advance in the treatment and control of diseases, it is important to focus in on and ...
When being Ugly was Illegal
Your momma’s so ugly that she literally could be fined for walking in the streets! No, seriously. Not that long ...
Olympic 2016 Preview: The Zika Virus
Amidst the alarming findings of illegal doping and the political turbulence brewing in the Brazilian capital, reservations toward the 2016 ...
“How to Have Theory in an Epidemic”: Pulse and the Legacy of HIV/AIDS
During times of national crisis, a “chaotic assemblage of understandings” often coalesces around a singular event, especially one so devastating as ...
Zika Virus Highlights Flaws in Public Health Approaches in the Americas – Part 2
How has the International community responded, what are possible solutions, and how does this affect reproductive and women's rights in Brazil? In ...
Zika Virus Highlights Flaws in Public Health Approaches in the Americas – Part 1
Zika's exponential spread has much of the Americas panicking about how to handle this new epidemic. Countries from Brazil to ...
