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Existential Risks

Existential Risks

Browse policy-relevant briefs on issues related to global health, nuclear threats, food security, and climate change.
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Caption Turlock Irrigation District (Turlock, CA). | Photo credit American Public Power Association

Correlates of Federal Permitting for Environmentally Impactful Projects

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Photo credit Melissa Jeanty

What Do Citizens Around the World Really Think About Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?

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When Heat Outpaces the Human Body: A Warming, Aging World at Risk

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In Keny, a doctor administers to an AIDs patient holding her child.
Caption Lab technician Martin Agunda tests a viral load sample from Ruth Gweyi, a mother living with HIV, in Kisumu, Kenya, where U.S. funding cuts to HIV programs strain local health services. | Photo credit Michel Lunanga/Getty Images

Global Health's Moment of Reckoning—and Reinvention

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