Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Florence Nightingale at Home (with COVID-19)
A conspicuous feature of the pandemic has been the idealization of the home as a place of safety and refuge.
Opinion: We Must Resist the Powerful Voices Arguing for Zero COVID
Do we treat the coronavirus as an ordinary risk of life, much as we do with the other 30 respiratory viruses that have infected humans throughout history? Or do we try to eliminate the virus from the UK altogether – the so-called Zero COVID approach?
Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas
What happens, asks Robert Dingwall, when governments attempt to impose a moral code on the everyday lives of citizens without the consent of those citizens?
Coronavirus UK – A Nasty Infection But Let’s Have a Sense of Proportion
Of course the government should have a Plan B for a second wave. But this might also be a moment to ask where pandemic management is taking us.
Coronavirus UK – Understanding the UK Government’s Policy on COVID-19
The UK government has regularly been denounced by many in the public health community for its absence of strategy in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of this criticism, however, reflects a simple dislike of the strategy or of the government that has authored it. On closer inspection, the UK government does have an intellectually coherent position – just one that is different from that preferred by many public health specialists and activists, and, to some extent, the biomedical community in general.
People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
Anthropology Webinars Explore Fieldwork, Public Health, & Coronavirus
In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, anthropologists around the world have been preparing to utilize knowledge gained from past pandemics to […]
What the AIDS Response Can Teach Us for Addressing COVID
The ways in which epidemics interact with human society suggest that much can be learned from previous epidemics. Drawing on the historical response to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, Donald Nicolson describes four parallels between the responses to these outbreaks and suggests what lessons can be learned by public health authorities responding to COVID-19.
