The middle-income health trap
In the lexicon of development, few words sound as reassuring as “graduation,” which suggests progress past critical milestones and an escape from dependency. In global health, however, graduation...
Critical-minerals race could fuel global inequality
Global efforts to combat climate change are primarily focused on phasing out fossil fuels and shifting to renewable energy. The accelerated pace of this transition, particularly in high-income...
Preparing now for the next disease X
Lawrence Were The writer is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University On December 12, 2019, a group of patients in Wuhan, China, started showing symptoms of an...
What corporations need to know about public health
Corporations are increasingly moving into the public-health domain. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are being “pulled” by market opportunities for non-traditional actors to...