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Equity and Social Policy: Q&A with Jessica Welburn Paige
Jessica Welburn Paige, a behavioral and social scientist, focuses on questions of race and inequality. In this interview, she discusses how AI programs being used to monitor students for suicide risk could compromise student privacy and harm vulnerable students.
Sep 3, 2024

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Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary significantly by location, highlighting the need to identify and disseminate best practices from high-performing communities. What are the key factors that improve survival?
Aug 27, 2024
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Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery
Communities—not governments—are often the primary agents driving disaster recovery. Understanding their needs, improving resource allocation, and measuring results can better leverage the community's power and promote successful disaster management preparation, responses, and outcomes.
Aug 23, 2024
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Bolstering the Role of Emergency Departments as Part of the Nation's Critical Infrastructure
Emergency departments are on the front line of the nation's response to mass-casualty incidents, disasters, and public health emergencies. They need adequate resources and they need to be systematically incorporated into local, state, and regional disaster networks.
Aug 22, 2024
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Teachers Are Still Stressed and Underpaid Post-COVID
This school year will be the fifth since COVID emptied classrooms and upended education as we knew it. Student test scores have not recovered. Districts nationwide report lingering staff shortages. And teachers still work long hours, earn relatively low salaries, and are stressed out.
Aug 22, 2024
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Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later
Lahaina can benefit tremendously from a community-driven approach to identifying recovery needs. This involves working closely with survivors themselves to understand their housing, health, economic, social, and other needs.
Aug 16, 2024
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Building Flood Resilience: A Grand Challenge for U.S. Water Policy
Flooding has become the most expensive and frequent disaster in the United States. Since 2000, flooding events occur almost daily, and the cost of inland flooding alone in 2023 was nearly $200 billion. Managing flood risk requires transformations in land use, regulation, insurance, and financing.
Aug 9, 2024
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Countering Fentanyl with Diplomacy
The fentanyl epidemic in the United States parallels China's historical opium crisis, which was exacerbated by foreign powers and led to widespread societal damage. Understanding China's past and its current role in fentanyl production could offer valuable insights for combating the ongoing U.S. crisis.
Aug 7, 2024
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Is Genomic Data the New Oil of the Middle East?
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are rushing to develop genomic databases with associated health data. The challenge for the Gulf States will be to translate their skill in gathering data into skills to analyze it to create value.
Jul 22, 2024
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Why Being Good to Your Workers Is Good for Your Stock Price
Companies that invest in their frontline workers—and are clearer about where/how—could see a meaningful uptick in their stock value, while also becoming more attractive to job candidates in a tight labor market. And those investments for employees can have transformative effects on people's lives and economic mobility.
Jul 18, 2024
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Sleep Alliance: Rebranding Sleep Divorce for Better Rest and Relationships
When both partners are well rested, they are likely to be less irritable and more supportive, leading to a stronger, more positive relationship. By viewing separate slumber as a sleep alliance, rather than a sleep divorce, more couples may consider an option that has led to better sleep and healthier relations for many.
Jul 18, 2024
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Five Key Domains of Incident Management
Five key domains are core to incident management. Understanding them can help ensure incidents are managed appropriately using practices that can quickly and efficiently resolve them.
Jul 10, 2024
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New Approaches to Measuring Cognitive Changes in Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Doctors and researchers are optimistic about the potential of future treatments for Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. But available measures to test the efficacy of such treatments on cognition are lacking.
Jul 8, 2024
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Should the UK Bring Back National Service? Considerations and Lessons from International Research
In the absence of fully fledged national service, the United Kingdom should consider alternative avenues for strengthening societal links with the armed forces, contributing to societal resilience, and encouraging engagement in national security and defence.
Jun 28, 2024
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Overprescribing Is Still Driving Overdose Deaths. One Fix Starts with Nudging Surgeons
If surgeons prescribed only the number of pills patients needed after an operation, this could greatly reduce the number of excess pills available for diversion and misuse. This, in turn, could reduce addiction and overdoses.
Jun 18, 2024
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Understanding the Long-Term Impacts of Combat: Genital Injury in UK Male Military Veterans
Greater discussion and support are needed not only during rehabilitation, but over the long term to address the enduring psychosocial and sexual impact of genital injury sustained in combat.
Jun 4, 2024

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