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Princeton Researchers Tackle Infectious Disease, Climate, and the Link Between the Two

As experienced in the recent COVID pandemic, the outbreak and rapid spread of infectious disease has potential to dramatically impact human morality,…

Dean's Dialogue: Low-carbon Buildings From Plastic Waste (Kidus Asfaw MPA ’14)

Within 30 years, Africa will be home to nearly 25% of the global population. As such, it’s poised to become a global power and is the focus of…

Dean's Dialogue: Hope for Afghanistan (Amb. Adela Raz)

It’s been a year since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Since then, the lives of many Afghans,…

Globalization — Good Politics, Bad Policy? (Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff)

Governments around the world are limiting their countries' engagement with the global economy. These anti-globalization attitudes are troubling,…

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Life Expectancy Drops for Native Americans Due to COVID-19

Native Americans experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 due to poverty, crowded housing, high rates of chronic disease,…

Religious Leaders Reduce Intimate Partner Violence in Uganda

Religious Leaders Reduce Intimate Partner Violence in Uganda

Intimate partner violence — or abuse and aggression in a romantic relationship — is a pervasive global issue. In Uganda, a primarily Christian…

Sanyu A. Mojola

Mojola Wins Best Publication Award From American Sociological Association

Sanyu A. Mojola received the 2022 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course…

Life Expectancy Drops from 81 to 79 Years in California During COVID-19

Life Expectancy Drops from 81 to 79 Years in California During COVID-19

The state of California enforced some of the most rigid COVID-19 restrictions, yet also experienced a significant drop in life expectancy during the…

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State Health and Value Strategies Program Awarded $10.6 Million Grant

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a $10.6 million grant to State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS), a program based at the Center for…

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Roe V. Wade Is Overturned

Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that protected women’s rights to choose an abortion. The decision…

Keith Wailoo

Wailoo Named Co-Chair of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ad Hoc Committee on Equity and Innovation

While new health and medicine technologies from gene editing to artificial intelligence promise to be immeasurably beneficial, they also come with…

Endnotes

The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom (Sahar Aziz)

Freedom of religion is a constitutionally protected right in the religion clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. By definition, this…

energy

Energy and Economics: Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

It’s been four weeks since Russia first invaded Ukraine, and the world is already beginning to see economic and energy impacts. Russia is one of the…

Russia and Ukraine

Ukraine — Russian Misinformation and Cybersecurity

Russia is no stranger to turning to the digital sphere to spread misinformation and propaganda. As the war wages in Ukraine, how is internet…

Russia and Ukraine

Ukraine — Global Ramifications

On March 4, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs held a second live, virtual discussion about the Russian invasion of Ukraine,…

Russia and Ukraine

The Conflict in Ukraine

Russia deployed troops into neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24 — an attack coming just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “military…

Janet and Biden

Currie Briefs White House on Lead Remediation

Janet Currie briefed President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of the President's economic team at a Feb. 8 meeting focused on…

Hydraulic Fracturing Negatively Impacts Infant Health

From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has transformed small towns into energy powerhouses. While…

Frymer discusses ‘Building an American Empire’

Paul Frymer, a professor of politics at Princeton University and the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School…

Reinhardt Receives Health Policy Leadership Award

Uwe Reinhardt is a winner of the 2017 Bipartisan Health Policy Leadership Award from the National Alliance of Health Policy. The award recognizes…

To Predict How Climate Change Will Affect Disease, Researchers Must Fuse Climate Science and Biology

Predicting how climate change will affect the incidence of infectious diseases would have great public health benefits. But the relationship between…

Lower-Income Children Raised in Counties With High Upward Mobility Display Fewer Behavioral Issues, Perform Better on Cognitive Tests

Children who grow up in urban counties with high upward mobility exhibit fewer behavioral problems and perform better on cognitive tests, according…

Doctors Trained at Lowest-Ranked Medical Schools Prescribe More Opioids

Physicians trained at the United States’ lowest-ranked medical schools write more opioid prescriptions than physicians trained at the highest-ranked…

Study Links Unhealthy Segregated Neighborhoods to Childhood Asthma

Researchers have had trouble explaining why black children are much more likely than other children to suffer from asthma. A new study by Princeton…

Decrease in Lead Exposure in Early Childhood May Be Responsible for Drop in Crime Rate

Exposure to lead in the preschool years significantly increases the chance that children will be suspended or incarcerated during their school…