Seeds for Success: Fruits and Veggies for Schoolkids
Emily Benedict
How can we make sure that children are getting enough fruits and vegetables?
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Disease in the Era of Climate Change: Human Disease Burdens in a Dynamic World
Introduced by John Meeker
In the field of public health alone, climate change will in some way impact every area of this broad, diverse discipline. How will human health adapt to a rapidly changing world and to rapidly evolving disease burdens as climate change threatens natural environments and already vulnerable populations?
This Overdose-Reversal Medicine Could Reduce Opioid Deaths - So Why Don't More People Carry It?
Tarlise Townsend and Freida Blostein
Could naloxone lower the number of opioid-related deaths?
Sustainable Food Systems for Public Health
Travertine Orndorff Garcia
Despite its interdisciplinary nature, public health tends to approach food systems problems in isolation. But occupational exposures, social determinants, personal behaviors, and chronic disease are interdependent, meaning food-systems solutions require deep, broad collaborations.
Malnutrition in Humanitarian Crises: The Will to End a Preventable Disease
Muriel Bassil
Across the globe, armed conflicts and natural disasters create severe hunger and malnutrition for millions. In addition to the crisis itself, underlying causes of malnutrition should be front and center—food insecurity, inadequate care for women and children, insufficient health services, and unhealthy environments.
Not Equipped: The Incarceration of Mothers and Limitations on Reproductive Rights
Sitara Murali
More than a third of incarcerated women worldwide are in US prisons, and 80 percent of those women are mothers. The US prison system is not equipped to provide basic health care to these women and must adapt quickly to ensure basic human dignity and access to adequate health care for a growing population of women.