Connecting Housing, Community, and Health
A look at four “housing-plus” initiatives that are building healthy neighborhoods.
Health - Articles
Innovations in health care policies and programs (more)
Advocating for Age in an Age of Uncertainty
How the COVID-19 crisis is amplifying ageism, and how advocates can push back.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
New Leadership for Global Health
The Adaptive Leadership Framework can help the international health community address the most complex problems in preventing communicable diseases and other global health threats. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
The Paradox of American Health Care
Nonprofit hospitals have long commercialized their services to cover their costs. A research article in the Summer 2020 issue.
How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Amid foundations' necessary and immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, there are unusual opportunities to advance their long-term goals of building more just and equitable societies.
The Cultural and Social Challenges to Slowing the Pandemic in Africa
The coronavirus was slow to make its way to Africa, but it is now there in full force and will be difficult to contain because of certain cultural and social behaviors.
Creative Public-Private Collaborations in Taiwan and South Korea Bolster the Fight Against Coronavirus
Cooperation between the public and private sectors in Taiwan and South Korea are enabling a prompt response to the challenge of distributing important health products during the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 and Chinese Civil Society’s Response
An outpouring of aid from nonprofits, foundations, and businesses in the nation first to face the epidemic provide some lessons and caveats for other regions now dealing with similar challenges.
Self-Inquiry for Social Change Leaders
How the internal work of self-inquiry can meaningfully shift our perceptions and behaviors in ways that positively impact the outer world, and how leaders of social change are incorporating the practice into their work and lives.