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February 18, 2016

Ebola Crisis Provides Framework for Responding to Outbreaks like Zika Virus

As world leaders grapple with containing the Zika virus, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa provides valuable lessons for how to respond to other…

February 17, 2016

WWS Reacts: The CDC’s Alcohol Guidelines for Women

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recommendation that sexually active women who are not using birth…

February 11, 2016

WWS Reacts: Lead Exposure and Water Contamination in Flint, Michigan

Since the discovery that its water supply had been contaminated with unsafe levels of lead, the city of Flint, Michigan, has been under a state of…

January 11, 2016

Fifteen-Year National Survey of 'Fragile Families' Fuels Wide Range of Research

On the second floor of Lewis Thomas Lab at Princeton University, researchers are working to better understand the complex interactions between…

December 17, 2015

WWS Reacts: Will the Paris Climate Agreement be a 'Turning Point' for the World?

On Dec. 12, the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris ended with the first climate change agreement in which the representatives of…

December 09, 2015

“Impassioned Debate” Results in Noteworthy Journal

While producing the annual Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) is no small task, a review of this year’s 26th edition clearly…

December 08, 2015

Currie Wins Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

December 07, 2015

More Aggressive Climate Policies Are Needed to Save the Future Poor

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to…

November 23, 2015

To Save the Earth, Better Nitrogen Use on a Hungrier Planet Must be Addressed

The global population is expected to increase by two to three billion people by 2050, a projection raising serious concerns about sustainable…

November 12, 2015

Princeton-Fung Global Forum Identifies Approaches for Dealing with 'Modern Plagues'

On the verdant campus of University College Dublin, nearly 300 public health experts and practitioners, government officials, scholars and students…