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High-stress health care environments can cause health care workers to establish emotional barriers between patients, work, and self—especially in communities where resources for dealing with trauma are scarce. In an award-winning essay, Clara Schriemer reflects on her time working in a maternity ward in Ghana—an opportunity for intercultural exchange and self-reflection that helped her better understand the role emotional barriers play in her own life.
With tensions around Britain’s planned exit from the European Union mounting, questions about maintaining the quality of health care for the country’s citizens are increasing.
As the frequency and intensity of natural disasters increases, public health can provide life-saving support in the aftermath. Disaster response research might not fall neatly into a single academic discipline, but we cannot allow disaster relief to fall through the cracks.
What does science tell us about the controversial politics and complicated research around food production? With meat production requiring large amounts of resources, Meatless Mondays can help omnivores reduce their food’s carbon footprint.
Ebola is once again in news headlines around the world, with hundreds of cases confirmed in central Africa. What have we learned from the 2013 outbreak about this deadly disease and about our own ability to handle such an epidemic?
Environmental monitoring will be key as the world reaches global polio eradication. Looking for poliovirus in sewage and using new disease models will improve how we track and understand each outbreak.