The Russian invasion of Ukraine epitomizes many of the challenges children face today, by inflicting serious damage to children’s health and...
Child trafficking is a widespread phenomenon. Children make up 27 percent of the 40 million victims of trafficking worldwide. Two out of every three...
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its intervention on that country’s internal affairs constitute a serious breach of international...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage throughout the world, a general assessment of the Trump administration’s handling the pandemic shows...
Much attention has been devoted in recent times to the environmental and economic effects of climate change. Much less attention, however, has been...
In 1895, Gustave Le Bon, a French social psychologist, published ‘La psychologie des foules,’ a seminal book on crowd psychology that became a...
The recent UN report on climate change alerts the world to the dramatic consequences to the environment that increasing global warming trends in our...
The US has the most guns per capita and the weakest gun control laws of any developed country. It is estimated that at least a third of American...
President Joe Biden’s avowed intention to close the Guantánamo prison offers hope to end an embarrassing episode in the most recent history of...
One of the most neglected consequences of the rapidly evolving Covid-19 is the increasing violence against women of all ages. UN Women has called it...
Public health messages addressed to the general population should be clear and unambiguous. This is particularly important in times of a pandemic...
As an international public health consultant, I have carried out several public health missions for the Pan American Health Organization , the...
In 1999, Justin Kruger and David Dunning wrote a paper, 'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead...
On May 19, 2020, two notable events occurred in Brazil: for the first time in the country, there were more than a thousand Covid-19 deaths and its...
Although far from over, the Covid-19 pandemic has already provided important lessons. From the public health point of view, perhaps the most...
In 1991, I headed a UNDP mission of Latin American physicians to evaluate a national Cuban project involving the use of interferon to treat...
“The Big Honcho suppressed all the newspapers that risked timid repairs to his management, and promised that factories would produce better...
In an increasingly globalized world, relations between nations can lead to a more general climate of antagonism or to one of cooperation that...
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs. The last few months have seen a remarkable...
