By Syra S. Madad, Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Nahid Bhadelia, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Boston University
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, 2026, is only the second CDC director to face Senate confirmation. Congress adopted the process for the agency after the COVID-19 pandemic to bring more scrutiny to one of the country’s most consequential public health jobs, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.…
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By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
The number of Americans who file for bankruptcy is growing. More than 500,000 people took this step in 2025, nearly 50% more than in 2022. And the numbers have kept on climbing, with a 12% jump in June 2026 from a year earlier as many consumers struggled to pay their bills.
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By Jerome A. Graham, Assistant Professor of K-12 Educational Administration, Michigan State University
Su Yon Choi, Assistant Professor of School Leaders, Florida Atlantic University
Yi-Chih Chiang, Assistant Professor of P-12 Educational Administration, Idaho State University
Research on absenteeism often focuses on factors like unreliable transportation, overlooking what schools themselves can do to help kids maintain a steady attendance record.
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By Sedzani Musundwa, Associate professor, University of South Africa
For the past few decades, universities, employers and professional bodies globally have invested in mentoring programmes, scholarships and student support initiatives to diversify careers such as professional accounting. The assumption has been that if talented students have help to overcome barriers, representation will improve.
For many socioeconomically marginalised people, going to university is seen as the key to a better life. Accounting has been one of the professions that promises stable jobs, financial security and upward social mobility. But while more students are getting…
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By Markus Engstler, Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Daniel Masiga, Head of Global Health Thematic Research Programme, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Tsetse flies transmit some of Africa’s most persistent parasitic diseases. They have affected human health, livestock production and rural development for generations, across a region spanning millions of square kilometres in 37 sub-Saharan countries.
Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is caused by two species of single-celled parasites. Others infect wild and domestic animals,…
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By Junior Amboko, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer, Florida Atlantic University
Kate Detwiler, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
There are 536 species of monkeys in the world today and the Democratic Republic of Congo has a new one. Named Likweli, this rainforest primate is one of only five new African monkey species described in the past 75 years. Despite its distinctive orange lips, it has only been spotted by locals a few times since 2008. It took PhD student in biological sciences Junior Amboko (who named the new monkey) and an international team that included anthropologist Kate Detwiler years of searching by foot and canoe, and conducting field observations,…
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By Renata Roma, Research Associate - Pawsitive Connections Lab, University of Saskatchewan
Often, when people talk about their pets, they are also talking about themselves — about the things they value and the experiences that shape who they are.
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By Mitu Sengupta, Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University
For more than two centuries, authorities in India have tried to remove free-ranging dogs from public life. Yet efforts to eliminate them have repeatedly encountered not only practical difficulties, but fierce resistance.
Why have dogs proven so difficult to dislodge from India’s streets?
Colonial culling drives provoked the Bombay dog riots of 1832, prompting authorities to experiment with relocating dogs rather than simply…
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By Ian Mudway, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
James Scales, Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London
Rosamund Dove, Research Associate, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London
When London introduced the ultra low emission zone (Ulez) in 2019, the idea was straightforward: cut the dirtiest vehicle emissions and improve the air people breathe. But the big question at the time was whether this measure would actually translate into measurable health benefits.
Our new study, published in The Lancet Public Health, suggests that it has had benefits for children’s…
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By Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
Two Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan came from tall individuals. But we can’t generalise to a whole species just yet.
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