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What Are Climate-Related Health Risks
Environment

Understanding Climate Change and Its Growing Impact on Public Health

In an interconnected world, diseases can cross borders faster than ever before. A local outbreak can quickly become a regional or even global concern. This reality raises an important question: who monitors disease outbreaks worldwide, and how do they manage such a complex responsibility? Behind every public health alert and safety advisory, there is a […]

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Communication

Human Trafficking in the United States 2026: Challenges, Trends, and Public Health Solutions

Human trafficking in the United States 2026 continues to be one of the most pressing and complex public health and human rights challenges facing the nation today. Despite growing awareness, millions of individuals remain vulnerable to exploitation through forced labor, sex trafficking, and coercive practices. As technology advances and criminal networks become more sophisticated, trafficking […]

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New Study Shows Impact of Technology on Relationships
Technology

New Study Shows Impact of Technology on Relationships in the Digital Age

In today’s connected world, smartphones, social media platforms, and instant messaging apps have become essential parts of daily life. While these tools make communication faster and more convenient, questions remain about their long-term effects on emotional bonds. Recently, a new study has shown the impact of technology on relationships, revealing both positive and negative patterns […]

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AI

Qatar & Implementation Science: Day 1 reflections

Driving Change: Regional Conference on Health and Emerging Fields in Implementation ScienceDecember 5, 2025 — Doha, Qatar Implementation science in the Middle East may be redefining what public health can be. That was my overwhelming impression after an energizing first day at the Driving Change conference hosted at Qatar University. As someone who has worked […]

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Commentary

How Attacks on Inclusive Science Harm Us All

What happens when politics targets science? A new congressional report lays bare the consequences—and it’s far more than just budget line items or bureaucratic shifts. It’s about silencing entire communities, threatening national security, and stalling our collective progress. In response to a politically motivated document known as the Cruz Report, the House Committee on Science, […]

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Interview

A conversation with June Han

After a break following the US election while our heads kept spinning, we’re happy to bring back our conversation with researchers and practitioners working to further health and wellness. June Han is a Senior Research Consultant at ORS Impact. With more than 20 years of experience doing applied research, she is a sociologist who specializes […]

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Commentary

How an NSF Report Set the Stage for Current Anti-DEI Policies

Something slipped by last October when America’s attention was focused on the election. The NSF Politicized Funding report, chaired by Texas’s Ted Cruz and released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s minority staff, asserted that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has increasingly allocated funding to research projects influenced by diversity, equity, […]

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News

Next Week in Public Health, January 17, 2025

We’ve been a bit unplugged this week, spending some well-earned time off in San Diego. Before going to the airport, we stopped at the Sunset Cliffs and walked down to the beach. Can you believe that I had never touched the Pacific before? Mission accomplished. We found all sorts of weird creatures in tide pools, […]

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Commentary

A Clinical Trial is the Definition of Vaccine Skepticsm.

Next Week in Public Health, December 6, 2024 After a month of discouragement and avoiding the news, I’ve been back at monitoring what’s going on from a policy perspective in the US. Obviously, the big change is the incoming administration and what several, eh, sketchy picks for different agency heads might have for public health. […]

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Research

Living Evidence Syntheses: Changing How We Use Research in Public Health

The COVID-19 pandemic shook the world in ways many of us had never experienced before. Aside from its devastating toll on health, the pandemic highlighted a significant issue that often flies under the radar: the massive wave of research being produced—sometimes at a rate so fast it’s difficult to keep up. Public health decision-makers found […]

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Policy

A Mess of Mixed Methods

Evaluating programs and policies is like trying to catch a greased pig. It’s messy, unpredictable, and downright challenging. But, as it turns out, embracing this messiness can lead to some of the most enlightening insights. A recent study explored just that by delving into the murky waters of mixed methods research (MMR) to understand how […]

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