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"A Bitter Pill to Swallow”: How Healthcare Commodification Drives Inequity and the Growing Case for a Universal Healthcare System

Healthcare commodification and privatization are escalating in the United States. As healthcare premiums continue to soar while return on investment seems to diminish, the discussion of reforming our healthcare system is of much contention.

Aidan Lee

9 min read

Global Health

The importance of early diagnosis of autoimmune diseases

What are AI diseases? Throughout the process of evolution, our bodies have developed an immune system capable of facing external threats to our bodies through the production of specific antibodies. Oftentimes, healthy cells/

Maria Costa

4 min read

Development

How Can Access to Regenerative Medicine Help Stabilize Developing Nations?

Regenerative medicine is at the forefront of helping hundreds of millions of people and is the next step in curing previously incurable diseases, most notably many chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.) which plague developing nations with aging populations.

Jamie Suesser

3 min read

COVID-19

Effect of the global vaccination on economic recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic was the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the world economy has ever experienced. We can observe it on the example of the US (Figure 1): GDP growth rate in

Ardana Izimova

3 min read

Harvard

Vaccine Nationalism and Inequities in the Global Vaccination Campaign

Officials of Jalandhar Civil Hospital hand over the vaccine to the staff of community health centres. (Credit: Sarabjit Singh/Tribune India). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.As of May 1, 2021, India

Ibrahima Diagne

4 min read

Berkeley

Africa and Its Struggle in the Quest for Vaccination

Since the introduction of COVID-19 in late December of 2019, COVID’s rampant spread has locked down families, communities and global economies. With a host of problems ranging from vaccine procurement to administration, Africa’s vaccination effort is in dire need of assistance.

Ethan Soe

6 min read

Harvard

China’s Current and Future Role in Climate Change

Spurred by an increasingly industrialized world since the mid-20th century, climate change and global warming have risen to the forefront of international issues that have and will continue to define environmental policy for

Brian Ma

2 min read

Harvard

Climate Change and Climate Justice in the Pacific Islands

The U.N. International Organization for Migration projects that there will be 200 million climate change migrants by 2050 (1). Some estimates range up to a billion, or more than one in every

Annelisa KL

4 min read

Harvard

Environmental Destruction Predating Climate Change Has Plagued Low-Income Communities of Color for Decades

Image credit: Ezra Acayan / Getty ImagesAs environmental disasters strike with greater frequency, the conversation around climate action is at its peak. In the last year alone, the United States lost $95 billion in

Rosa Flores

5 min read

Harvard

Intellectual Property and Public Health clash over Covid-19

Intellectual property is a field of law that is critical to be aware of in understanding inequities in access to medicine and especially relevant in the time of Covid. Before understanding how Intellectual

Jack Kelly

5 min read

Harvard

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

Image credit: Wyeth Nutrition Science Center The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our macro-level societal functions and our micro-level personal lives cannot be understated. The pandemic has brought serious — and perhaps

Osahon Tokunboh

5 min read

Harvard

Pregnancy during a Pandemic: Covid-19’s Pronounced Effect on Women’s Health in Southeast Asia

Over the past year, the Covid-19 pandemic has claimed over half a million lives in the United States alone. While resources such as personal protective equipment and vaccines are a step in the

Noor Baig

3 min read

Harvard

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: What Covid-19 Tells Us About the History of Racialized Medicine

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports as of March 15, 2021, race and ethnicity is known for about 53% of individuals who have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine

Kyla N Golding

4 min read

Wharton

Repercussions of Counterfeit Medicine

Introduction According to the CDC, counterfeit medicines are manufactured with incorrect or dangerous ingredients while still packaged and labeled to look like the real medicine. While counterfeit drugs have been widely understood for

Chaitanya Vankireddy

11 min read

Global Health

The Social Implications on Health

In this podcast, we interview Atrik Patel, a sophomore studying Global Health Studies at Northwestern University. We cover issues such as inequity in healthcare, inaccessibility to proper care, racism and classism in treatment, and more.

Mujtaba Najeed

1 min read

Climate Change

Kiribati: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

In much of the world, climate change often struggles to steal the limelight, but in few places is that less true than in Kiribati. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of

Aden Littlewood

5 min read

Berkeley

COVID-19: Rethinking Single-use Personal Protection Equipment

The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply increased the global consumption of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE). Thankfully, many organizations are currently developing sustainable alternatives.

Sarah Dong

5 min read

Global Health

Are All Generic Drugs Created Equal?

For rich and developing countries alike, it is imperative to confront issues of drug safety, quality, and manufacturing to ensure an equitable distribution of essential medicines to the populations who need them most.

Irene Quan

3 min read

Cambridge

Preventing the next pandemic

With a glance at the epidemiological data reflecting recent trends in the incidence and distribution of disease, the COVID-19 pandemic was distressingly easy to predict.

Anna Govett

3 min read