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SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT The Planetary Health Alliance and Stanford University are organizing the third Annual Meeting on Planetary Health on September 4-6, 2019 at Stanford University in California, U…
A Tribute To My UN Colleagues Killed in Ethiopia | Opinion
They worked on peacekeeping and reversing climate change, on empowering women and reducing plastic waste in the oceans, on helping people forced to flee their homes and so much more.
Sign Petition: Help stop the suicide epidemic in Nunavik, Northern Québec, Canada.
The incidence of suicide among the young Indigenous people of Northern Canada is ten times or higher than the national average (57194 signatures on petition)
Offline: Public health and the fight against extremism
“Terrible beyond contemplation”, wrote a friend from New Zealand last week after the
assaults on two mosques in Christchurch. Most politicians unreservedly condemned the
March 15 attacks, examples of white nationalist terrorism that left 50 people...
Mount Kenya: A View of Climate Impacts and Opportunities
In March 2019, a small expedition team climbed Mount Kenya to see first-hand how climate change is impacting communities and how they are adapting and driving opportunities for climate action.
Firearm deaths of US school-age children at 'epidemic' levels, study says
A new study announced an alarming increase in the number of firearm deaths of school-age children in the United States: 38,942 in those 5 to 18 years old from 1999 to 2017.
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Creation of a global emergency-department research network: a feasibility study
Despite some substantial barriers, development of an infrastructure to study emergency
care at a global level is feasible. The sustainability plan is to create a robust
network that nurtures future investigators, identifies funding sources, and...
China’s Uyghur detention camps may be the largest mass incarceration since the Holocaust
Over the last few years, a network of enormous detention camps has sprung up across China’s remote northern province of Xinjiang. According to the US State Department, the United Nations and other researchers and activists, they may hold at least a...
New Zealand’s Dealing With Its Gun Problem. When Will We?
Other nations’ leaders learn from experience. But Congress and President Trump refuse to act.
The Trial of Ratko Mladić
Go inside the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladić, one of the most infamous figures of the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
Implementation of policies to protect planetary health
Extensive evidence exists that human health and civilisation depends on flourishing
natural systems.1 The Rockefeller–Lancet Commission on planetary health summarised
how climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, and air and water...
Overcoming the research to policy gap
Although astounding improvements have been made to human wellbeing over the past 40
years—increased lifespan, reduced under-5 mortality, maternal deaths, and extreme
poverty1—daunting crises imperil our very existence. We are facing a deadly...
The 8-Year-Old Homeless Refugee Chess Champion
Overcoming life’s basic truth: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.