Tag: public health

We are early days in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and do not know whether it will be a short ...

Editor’s Note: After “War and Peace?”, “Close to the Edge: Climate Change: Focus on Africa, Asia and the Coastal Poor”, ...

In just one week, half a million Italians united under the ReferendumCannabis ballot campaign to decriminalise recreational marijuana. Under Italian ...

Hundreds of wildfires have been raging across Australia for more than two months, destroying 7.4 million acres of land and ...

Air pollution as a business opportunity, clean oxygen as the product. In the midst of the New Delhi air pollution ...

Populism is dangerous and puts public health and the economy at risk. But it is hard to resist. Populist politicians ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050. ...

Milly goes door-to-door selling every day goods and medicines in her hometown district of Kyengera. Kyengera is just outside Kampala, ...

Sex work is often seen as a social taboo, despite the fact that there are many millions of adults engaged ...

The controversy over soda taxes tells us why effective public health policies are so difficult to enact. Philadelphia Mayor Jim ...

Zika's exponential spread has much of the Americas panicking about how to handle this new epidemic. Countries from Brazil to ...

Stigma-inducing discrimination caused by Republican-frontrunner Donald Trump creates mental health disparities amongst minority Americans. People vying to be our leaders ...