Health

Novel Hand was started just weeks before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic– so we’ve written a few articles about health. Read on to learn about health policy, social determinants of health, and other topics.

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A Tale of Two Pandemics: The Stories, the Stereotypes, and the Responses to HIV and COVID-19

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How Will We Beat Covid-19 if We Never Learned to Recycle?

Migrant Farmworkers

Who Are Migrant Farm Workers, and What Do They Face?

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The Right to Bodily Integrity: Reproductive Health and its Threats

Are The Tokyo Olympics Exactly What We Need to Defeat COVID-19?

What’s in Your Water? How to Reduce Household Water Pollution

Does Minimalism Help the Environment? How to Downsize and Donate Sustainably

Self-Care isn't Selfish

Mental Health in Sports: How Recent Dialogue within the Industry is Changing

How Global IP Laws Prevent Other Nations from Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines

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COVID-19 + Epidemiology

A Tale of Two Pandemics: The Stories, the Stereotypes, and the Responses to HIV and COVID-19

How Global IP Laws Prevent Other Nations from Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines

Closing the Gap Between Now and Herd Immunity

An Impossible Dilemma for the Rohingya: Oppression in Myanmar or Threat of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

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Equity versus Efficiency: The COVID-19 Vaccine

Race and a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Four Ventilators: What COVID-19 in South Sudan Reveals About Healthcare in the Developing World

Pay Americans to Stay Home: A Harm Reduction Perspective on Public Health

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Deforestation and Disease: Exploring the Connection

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How Does Your Mask Impact the Environment?

COVID 19 and Water Quality on Reservations

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

Race and a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Why is Race Being Considered in the Distribution of a COVID-19 Vaccine?

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The COVID-19 Vaccine Is On Its Way. But Will We Get Fair and Equitable Access?

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 3)

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Mask Etiquette 101

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 2)

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India: Pandemic, Poverty and Privilege

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 1)

How COVID-19 impacts Transgender People in the U.S

What Does a Global Pandemic Mean for Climate Change?

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COVID-19 and Latin America

Inequality in the Time of Covid-19

Homelessness during COVID-19

How to Help: the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Effect of COVID-19 on Our Nation’s Prisons and Jails, and What You Can Do to Help

Viewpoint: Coronavirus as a humanitarian issue

Health Policy

How Global IP Laws Prevent Other Nations from Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines

Pay Americans to Stay Home: A Harm Reduction Perspective on Public Health

Shifting Crowd Control Tactics in Modern Policing

Effects of Redlining on Poverty

How Redlining Affects Health, Civil Rights, and More

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The Politics of Healthcare: 2020 Election Edition

Race and a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Why is Race Being Considered in the Distribution of a COVID-19 Vaccine?

Global Health

How Global IP Laws Prevent Other Nations from Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines

Part Three: Examining the Intersections of Mental Health and the Refugee Experience in the US

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Part Two: Examining the Intersections of Mental Health and the Refugee Experience in the US

An Impossible Dilemma for the Rohingya: Oppression in Myanmar or Threat of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Race and a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Four Ventilators: What COVID-19 in South Sudan Reveals About Healthcare in the Developing World

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2020 Nobel Peace Prize Recognizes the World Food Programme: Why Now?

What You Should Know on World Refugee Day

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India: Pandemic, Poverty and Privilege

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COVID-19 and Latin America

Gender + Sexuality

What You Need to Know About Period Poverty

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How can you be a better advocate for survivors this semester? An Interview with the Every Voice Coalition

Remember: Black Women with Disabilities

Overlooked: Black Womxn Survivors of Sexual Violence

How COVID-19 impacts Transgender People in the U.S

Why Do We Need To Talk About Domestic Violence Now More Than Ever?

Health Equity

How Global IP Laws Prevent Other Nations from Manufacturing COVID-19 Vaccines

blood plasma industry

The Blood Plasma Industry Explained

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Equity versus Efficiency: The COVID-19 Vaccine

Shifting Crowd Control Tactics in Modern Policing

Effects of Redlining on Poverty

How Redlining Affects Health, Civil Rights, and More

COVID 19 and Water Quality on Reservations

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

george floyd call to action

The COVID-19 Vaccine Is On Its Way. But Will We Get Fair and Equitable Access?

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 3)

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 2)

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India: Pandemic, Poverty and Privilege

Forgotten: How COVID-19 Exacerbates Inequities for Indigenous Communities (Part 1)

Inequality in the Time of Covid-19

Health + Environment

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The Threat Climate Change Poses to Food Security

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Deforestation and Disease: Exploring the Connection

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How Does Your Mask Impact the Environment?

Sustainable Eating: Buying Locally, Veganism, and the Impact of Agriculture on the Environment

COVID 19 and Water Quality on Reservations

One in 1,220: COVID-19 and Water on Native Reservations

Right to Harm documentary

Five Takeaways from the Right To Harm Documentary

What Does a Global Pandemic Mean for Climate Change?

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Impact

Donate: give money or menstrual products to ISTG
Volunteer: serve as a crisis hotline volunteer
Student activism by planning a RAINN Day, which includes events centered around bystander intervention and healing resources for sexual assault
Donate: Doctors without Borders

Want more resources to further your learning? Check out some of our team’s favorites below!

Books

Brain Maker by David Perlmutter | Book |
The Healing of America by T.R. Reid | Book |
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal | Book |
The Patient Will See You Now by Eric Topol | Book |
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett | Book |

Podcasts

Podcasts

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