Health and Social Policy Moving Forward: The Partisan Divide Presented jointly with POLITICO and The Commonwealth Fund Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Watch on YouTube A Democratic presidential administration. A Democrat-controlled Congress. A conservative Supreme Court. What are the likely implications for health and rights as these three powerful entities intersect under the Biden administration? A Read More…
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: The Brazilian Crisis and More Facebook Live Q&A with Marcia Castro, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly with The World from PRX & GBH Watch on YouTube As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, is experiencing Read More…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Vaccine Acceptance and Public Attitudes Facebook Live Q&A with Gillian SteelFisher, Deputy Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH Watch on YouTube As coronavirus vaccinations increase in the United States, questions Read More…
The Vaccine Rollout: Perspectives from the States Presented jointly with Reuters Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Watch on YouTube More than 18 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. And with a third vaccine, another tool has been added to help curb the pandemic’s Read More…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Grieving and Mental Health Facebook Live Q&A with Christy Denckla, Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH Tuesday, March, 2, 2021 Watch on YouTube With half a million dead Read More…
Homelessness In America: The Search for Solutions During COVID-19 Presented jointly with GBH News Wednesday, February 24, 2021 On a single night in January 2019, approximately 568,000 people in the United States were homeless, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A year later — with months of a subsequent and ongoing Read More…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Variants, Vaccines and More Facebook Live Q&A with William Hanage, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH Tuesday, February 23, 2021 The emergence of COVID-19 variants raises Read More…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Testing, Vaccines, and the Way Forward Facebook Live Q&A with Michael Mina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Reuters Tuesday, February 16, 2021 The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is now underway. But it Read More…
The country’s mental health crisis has only been intensified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ever-increasing numbers of deaths and illness, accompanied by economic fears and racial tensions, have made for a grim picture. During this time of unprecedented crisis, everyone is suffering, but Black, Latinx and Indigenous populations, frontline workers, and young people face disproportionate Read More…
What are the invisible social strata that define and divide America? How does this unseen ranking underlie racism? And how do caste dynamics systematically lessen the value of Black lives? Join Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and esteemed social scientist David Williams for a conversation about embedded Read More…
