Traditional healers vs. diabetes |
Kenya is exploring traditional medicine as a cost-effective way to fill gaps in diabetes care. With cases rising and insulin beyond the reach of many, researchers are working to validate plant-based remedies and waiting for the Kenyan government to create new policies.
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Structural racism impacts transplants |
Despite higher rates of end-stage kidney disease, Black patients face lower access to live-donor kidney transplants. Structural barriers, like residential segregation and the high financial burden of donation, are to blame.
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Hans Gutknecht / The Orange County Register via AP Photo
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Volunteer wildfire fighters |
During the devastating Los Angeles fires, trained volunteers worked alongside firefighters to evacuate residents, clear flammable materials, and address ember fires. HPH contributor Maura Kelly talks to Brent Woodworth, chairman and CEO of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation, about the effort and how it could provide a model for other areas.
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Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Graphic Art, Ms. Coll. 67 of the Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library of Yale University
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Satire for better public health |
Historian Bert Hansen looks at some early editorial cartoons, which he says “often lampooned public health problems—poor sanitation, greedy developers, lax regulations—using caricature and humor to stoke outrage in readers.”
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Death by a thousand “likes” |
An editorial cartoon by Natasha Loder
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What we’re reading this week |
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I never expected to have to write a farewell so soon, but alas—Harvard Public Health magazine will publish its final articles, and the final issue of this newsletter, next week. It has been an honor to write Harvard Public Health Weekly for the past year, sharing amazing solutions journalism covering the world’s most pressing public health issues.
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