The Australian covid-19 experience has been a rollercoaster. We greeted covid-19 head on. Our first outbreak was in April 2020 and the approach taken was to do all that we […]
Month: August 2021
The world’s most vulnerable people are suffering and dying from the effects of the “shadow pandemic”
The international community must recommit to the health of women, children, and adolescents, write Helen Clark, board chair of PMNCH and former prime minister of New Zealand, and Kersti Kaljulaid, […]
Transitioning from covid-19 elimination to sustainable endemicity in East Asia
What are the challenges and options for East Asian countries that pursued “elimination” strategies? […]
DATA-CAN: a co-created cancer data knowledge network to deliver better outcomes and higher societal value
Mark Lawler, Chris Carrigan, and colleagues describe how DATA-CAN’s co-created partnership has brought together patient representatives, healthcare professionals, and academic and industry researchers to facilitate responsible collection and use of […]
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World—even less independent from its tobacco company funder
Funding “independent” research is a long-standing tobacco industry strategy used to sow doubt, offer ineffective “solutions” to industry-caused problems, and legitimize industry efforts to engage in public health policymaking. [1-3] […]
The climate crisis is not slow and gradual but unpredictable and catastrophic
Climate disasters are dangerously becoming a new normal. We must embolden our leaders to take the global action needed to avert climate catastrophe, say Rana Orhan, Tara Chen, and John […]
Covid-19 in India: vaccine shortages are leading to discrimination in access
In the first year of the covid-19 pandemic, India’s management of the spread, testing, tracing, and treatment of covid-19 was globally regarded as relatively well managed. But complacency set in […]
The changing pattern of respiratory viruses during covid-19—what does the future hold?
Recognition of how the pandemic has altered the infectious rhythm of viruses can lead to better preparedness in the health community, write Rabia Agha and Jeffrey R Avner […]
Abraar Karan: We must stop blaming—and start protecting—unvaccinated people
We need to stop viewing “the unvaccinated” as a homogenous group, writes Abraar Karan, and instead understand them as individual people […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Artificial translation
Last week I wrote about “tortured phrases”, a term invented by the authors of an arXiv preprint in which they highlight the ways in which fake scientific papers are being […]