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The Gates Foundation is committing $1.2 billion to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to support the end of the disease in the two endemic countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock

Philanthropy is reshaping global health. Here’s how

Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Could philanthropists be dominating global health metrics, governance, and outcomes?
The new rating system shows that eating the right amount of vegetables can lower your risk of heart disease by nearly 20%. Westend61/Getty Images

How unhealthy is red meat? And how beneficial is it to eat vegetables? A new rating system could help you cut through the health guidelines

Aleksandr Aravkin, University of Washington; Christian Razo, University of Washington, and Jeffrey Stanaway, University of Washington

Health guidelines can feel contradictory and hard to interpret. But a new star rating system should help consumers and policymakers better parse the evidence behind health risks and outcomes.
A November 2020 memorial in Washington, D.C. consisted of thousands of flags, each planted to remember someone who died of COVID-19. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

578,555 people have died from COVID‑19 in the US, or maybe it’s 912,345 – here’s why it’s hard to count

Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Virginia Tech

Record-keepers have a pretty good sense of how many people have died. But figuring out the cause of those deaths is a lot trickier – and that’s why reasonable modelers can disagree.

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