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...
One of the neglected consequences of the recent wars and civilian conflicts in many parts of the world is their effect on people’s education,...
A new anniversary of a catastrophe brings back strong feelings and sad memories. Such is the case of the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade...
If any doubts remain about the nefarious influence of the National Rifle Association on the political life of the United States, President Donald...
The two recent mass shooting incidents in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in which more than 30 people were killed and dozens injured, are one...
Writing professionally in two languages, Spanish and English in my case, poses stimulating challenges. After almost 50 years of living in the United...
Working for long periods under extreme stressful work conditions can lead to sudden death. 'Burn out' is now described as an occupational...
Depression is widespread, largely undiagnosed, and rarely treated in Japan. Until the late 1990s, depression was largely ignored outside the...
María Salguero knows how to leverage her background as a geophysical engineer on behalf of women. Since 2016, she has been tracking cases of...
The 2019 Memorial Lecture honoring Edward W Said, ‘Out of Place: Refugees, Immigrants, and Storytelling’ couldn’t have come at a more...
One of the lessons of the Ebola epidemic is the need to improve the African countries’ public health services, which have suffered the...
The numbers are mind-blowing: Since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen, an estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme...
Millions of children die every year as a result of environment-related diseases. Their deaths could be prevented by using low-cost and sustainable...
On June 16 2015 Donald Trump announced his candidacy to the presidency and set the tone of his priorities. The elimination of illegal immigration to...
What promised to be a peaceful September morning turned into a nightmare. As usual, that day my wife and I woke up about 7 am. We had breakfast and...
Every time a horrific incident of mass violence occurs, we should study it with the same care that we study any subject in which our own life is at...
As the war in Afghanistan shows no signs of abating, the health of the people in the country continues to be cause for concern. Afghanistan’s...
The facility to buy guns in the US surprises almost everybody coming from another culture, as is my case. “In Florida, to buy a gun you do not...
A just released report on climate change issued by 13 U.S. federal agencies states that human activities are responsible for the global temperature...
It is impossible to win a war that you cannot define. That seems to be the main lesson to be drawn from Afghanistan, where a so-called victory seems...
If we have learned anything from this last presidential election it’s that poverty continues to be an ignored concept by president-elect Trump...
The US government’s recent decision to send 15 Guantánamo Bay detainees to the UAE is the largest and most recent detainee transfer...
Resilience is the capacity that allows some people to bounce back after being knocked down by life. Instead of becoming a victim of adversity, they...
Concern for the health of the poor is one of the critical issues in development. Poverty cannot be defined solely in terms of low or no income. Lack...
Nobody was happier, on listening to his daughter Ivanka, than Donald Trump the night of his coronation at the Republican Convention. Listening to...
The military upheaval in Turkey, whose final consequences are yet to be seen, highlights a major weakness in worldwide efforts to promote democracy....
The use of cyberspace as a tool of war has changed the nature of conventional warfare. This not only poses problems in terms of how to respond to...
It has been said that soccer matches are as unpredictable as blind dates. And that was never truer that in the last game for the 2016 European...
The world is witness to a rapid increase in the number of people forced to flee from wars, conflict and persecution in countries such as Syria,...
Toy soldiers have a long history. They have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and have since appeared in many cultures and eras. During the...
