Weathering the Climate Crisis: The Health Benefits and Policy Challenges of Home Weatherization
Weatherization is an important tool to meet vulnerable communities’ energy needs, and to combat negative health effects of climate change.
Resource Allocation
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Read more: How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
The same ethical goals identified for vaccine allocation are also relevant for COVID-19 therapy allocation.
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Read more: Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)
The Biden administration decided to go full speed ahead into a wave of Omicron infection, even as other countries have introduced targeted restrictions.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)
The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by the government.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021)
Framing vaccination as a way to opt out of the pandemic has helped absolve the Biden administration of its responsibilities to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response
How did we get here? How is our Democratic president — who ran, in part, against Trump’s horrid pandemic response — letting the virus rip?
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Read more: The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned
We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
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Read more: A Shared Responsibility Model A Shared Responsibility Model
The prism of the “shared responsibility model” provides an opportunity to consider potential global health governance models for emergency actions.
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Read more: Addressing IP Barriers in the Context of a Pandemic Treaty Addressing IP Barriers in the Context of a Pandemic Treaty
Tackling the question of how to address the needs for sharing scientific research is fundamental to any pandemic treaty discussion.