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Investing in Communities Through Public Health

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For World Health Day, we spoke with Council Emerging Leaders Program alum Yamilé Molina about engaging with the power of every patient.

Yamilé Molina delivering a speech to a classroom. Global Health

The Global Order Got over COVID-19 Pretty Quickly

In the News
World Politics Review
Paul Poast

"Rather than changing the global order, COVID-19 was more a reflection and product of that order," Paul Poast writes.

A woman wearing a face mask waits to receive a coronavirus vaccine
Oded Balilty / AP
Global Health

What Dismantling USAID Could Mean Locally and Nationally

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WTTW
Catherine Bertini

Distinguished Fellow Catherine Bertini joins Chicago Tonight to discuss the impacts of the USAID freeze, particularly on global hunger and health.

Catherine Bertini speaks on Chicago Tonight US Foreign Policy

What Trump's Recent Executive Orders Mean for US Foreign Policy

In the News
CBS News Chicago
Paul Poast

Paul Poast unpacks the implications of the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization.

Paul Poast appears on CBS via video US Foreign Policy

Advocates espouse compounding benefit of immigrant health coverage

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ChicagoGlobal by Jon Asplund

The Healthy Illinois Campaign unveiled a new data review by UIC that lays out the benefits that ripple out from providing health insurance to the uninsured.

Two people hold hands, one wearing an orange hospital bracelet.
Jon Tyson
Global Health

From pollution to solutions: How global cities are tackling poor air quality

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ChicagoGlobal by Renata Sago

As Chicago and other global cities increasingly grapple with poor air quality, solutions to the problem vary by location.

Woman bicycling against the Chicago skyline blanketed in haze from Canadian wildfires
AP Photos
Global Cities

Underground climate change is slowly sinking Chicago and cities across the globe

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ChicagoGlobal by Nicole L. Cvetnic

We know Venice is sinking. What about Chicago, which accounts for about 234 square miles of land?

An aerial view of Chicago
AP Photos
Global Cities

Survival of the City: Ed Glaeser on the Future of Post-Pandemic Urban Life

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Global Insight by Coauthors

Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award nominee Edward Glaeser examines the gaps in health care, education, and governance laid bare by the pandemic.

Survival of the City shot Global Cities

A Scorching Summer Heats Up the Farmer Health Crisis

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Global Food for Thought by Molly Shields

The summer’s record temperatures have reignited the international farmworker health crisis.

Construction worker Jose Arellano, left, wipes his face as Arellano and Juan Martinez install fence posts along a corn field in Happy, Texas.
AP Photos
Food and Agriculture

From China to Mexico: Tracing the Deadly Fentanyl Trail

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Deep Dish confronts America’s deadly fentanyl crisis and the struggle to stop the flood of fentanyl from entering the country.

A bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration
AP Photos
Global Health