The numbers confirm what we already know: We’re facing an increasing epidemic of gun deaths in America. 2017 was the most dangerous year yet: U.S. firearm deaths reached 39,773, their highest level in 40 years, increasing 16 percent from 2014.
All over America and around the world, municipal officials are considering transportation alternatives that move large numbers of people while cutting pollution — especially greenhouse gases — and easing traffic congestion.
Over the last decade, bike sharing became ubiquitous in U.S. cities from Boston to Bakersfield, but small, electric e-scooters are heralded by some as the next phase in the greening of our towns and cities.
In June 2018, Dr.
A study published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr.
The "California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2021 Making an Impact" report highlights the exciting work produced by CHIS in 2021 — from timely COVID-19 data on how Californians are continuing to navigate the pandemic’s conditions and challenges, to the many publications, events, presentations, data trainings, news stories, and more that have brought this data to the public.
COVID-19 is a grave pandemic, the worst we have seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. Its virus is not only harming and killing hundreds of thousands of us, but it is also creating despair and poverty. Its economic and mental health harms are incalculable. As a nation it is putting us more deeply in debt, to be repaid by several generations to come who will have a reduced living standard. Unemployment levels surpass those of the Great Depression. I have chosen not to summarize the harms but to ask what we can do to vanquish this invisible scourge over the next year.
Researchers worldwide are scrambling to develop coronavirus vaccines. More than 140 candidates are being advanced with all possible speed by research teams from small academic labs and big drug companies alike. While the Trump administration is pushing developers to meet faster timelines, providing supports in the form of favorable legislative measures and more than $7 billion in taxpayer funding so far, it hasn’t addressed an equally urgent question: What will be done to ensure vaccines are accessible for those who need them most?
DR. JODY HEYMANN has devoted her career to advocating for vulnerable and marginalized populations around the world through her public health and policy expertise and scholarship.
AS THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS pandemic took hold early this year, it sparked another type of contagion — one that, Fielding School experts note, is not at all novel in the context of public health emergencies.