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27
Apr

The Shared History of AIDS and COVID-19

In the midst of the medical, economic, and psychological fight against COVID-19, it is prudent to examine past outbreaks of disease in order to gain a greater understanding of what may lie …

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24
Apr

Announcing Advances in Global Health

Advances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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21
Apr

Labor in a Time of Crisis

COVID-19 has laid bare the enormous gap between the value that frontline workers bring to society and the low wages many earn in return.

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19
Apr

Confinement’s Dimensionality

With one-third of the global population now under some form of lockdown or quarantine due to the spread of COVID-19, an unprecedented number of people are experiencing varying levels of isolation daily. …

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15
Apr

A Critique of Market-Based Medicine

It has been well understood for some time now that COVID-19 and its ensuing global pandemic are unprecedented events in our contemporary world. Not since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 has global …

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09
Apr

Controlling Typhoid Mary

As the billions of people around the global under shelter in place orders are discovering, public health has significant power to restrict our liberty in times of crisis. But what are the …

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08
Apr

Call for Papers: COVID-19 and the Anthropocene

The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessing atmospheric, resource use, ecological, cultural, economic, and political consequences materializing in many places and at a scale that is unprecedented and difficult to grasp.

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