Carolyn Whelan
The images are heartbreaking, the statistics even worse. Though the US leads the world in total deaths from COVID-19, during wave one of the pandemic care homes were, in relative terms, the deadliest place to
Driving Change
This year has highlighted important similarities between how a virus spreads within a community and the spread of violence, says Gary Slutkin, a former World Health Organization physician and Founder and CEO of Cure Violence,
Furqan Sayeed
Until now, African countries have largely defied the gloomiest forecasts about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic. The continent, which many epidemiologists predicted would be incredibly vulnerable to the disease, has instead seen some of the
Furqan Sayeed
In developing countries, food insecurity following the outbreak of disease has often been more fatal than the disease itself. Pandemics such as Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and MERS all had negative impacts on food
Rachel Dobbs
For decades, New Zealand has been a world-leader in a category nobody wants to win: it has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the developed world. In 2018, the country’s police investigated
Carolyn Whelan
As much of the world recovers from a first wave of COVID-19 infections, others are anticipating the next swells. Amid this pivot, they are looking to policy lessons from a handful of countries that handled
Carolyn Whelan
As Latin America and the Caribbean feel the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of its 33 countries are showing how to beat a virus that is increasingly devastating to the rest. In Costa
