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Tonia Frame, Fred Nunes, and Dana Repka In Grenada, as across much of the English‑speaking Caribbean, many adolescents begin navigating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs well before adulthood, often in contexts shaped by stigma and limited…

Kyle Knight and Alex Müller The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last week that they are going to genetically sex test all women athletes. The newly announced policy follows a secret process the IOC initiated last year, ostensibly to…

Krishraj Singh Sikarwar and Princy Singh Sikarwar Global night sky brightness increased by nearly 10% every year between 2011 and 2022, which is more than an astronomical inconvenience. Artificial light at night (ALAN) also has an adverse effect…

Tejas Sateesha Hinder India’s Transgender Rights Bill, 2026 proposes to replace “self-perceived gender identity” with a system of state certification which marks a shift in how the law understands identity itself, moving from recognition based on…

Suhana Roy In January 2026, India’s Supreme Court delivered a transformative judgment recognizing access to menstrual health and hygiene as an integral component of the right to life, dignity, and bodily autonomy under article 21 of the Constitution…

Guilia Bosi In 2025, for the first time, global rates of obesity among school-age children and adolescents exceeded those of underweight children, establishing it as the predominant form of malnutrition, as noted in the UNICEF Child Nutrition Report…

Zazie Huml On November 13, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a revised funding notice for the Continuum of Care program—the central federal mechanism for financing permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and the…

Luciano Magaldi Sardella and Matteo Mantuano The relationship between built environment and population health has received substantial scholarly attention, yet the role of public art as health infrastructure remains curiously underexamined in…

Shambhavi Singh and Rudra Singh Krishna The Supreme Court of India has re-anchored the right to health within the constitutional framework of custodial dignity, holding that incarceration curtails liberty, not humanity. In its July 2025 decision of L.…

Anubhuti Raje When the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) began mining in 1967, uranium was framed as a national security necessity. Environmental and health safeguards were absent; baseline studies were never conducted. For the…