Health Systems/Global Governance

According to climate change models cited by the state’s department of environmental protection, by 2080 Massachusetts is projected to hit an average of 17-52 days every year where the thermostat will read a number above 90 degrees. Some populations are...

Homelessness is a major public health issue in the United States. Homeless individuals are at critically higher risk for health issues such as malnutrition, HIV, violence/rape, substance abuse disorder, and mental illnesses such as anxiety/depression...

The opioid epidemic has hit urban centers hard, particularly my native San Francisco. Drug use disorders have risen to the third leading cause of DALYs in 2019, and the 15th cause of death in 2019 in California. On average, there are 76.3 overdose-related...

China is one of the world’s largest producers of pharmaceuticals, but the country is also one of the largest producers of counterfeit medicine. Counterfeit medicine includes any medical product that falsifies its identity, manufacturing source, or...

Large health disparities exist between those who have resources and those who don’t. This work is about the issues of when access, health supplies, and education are not equitably distributed. The image itself is quite dramatic: the page and the letters...

Both governments and individuals can influence policy, which, at its largest scale, can have huge impacts on millions of people. Some policy is positive. Some policy is negative. But policies make a big difference in how the world is run. This image...

Access to health care is not distributed equally around the world or even around the country. All too often, barriers to access prevent people from receiving the health care that they need. Here, the word “Access” is cut off from the viewer by a white...