Viewpoints

Daniel Pizzolato, Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, and Alice Cavolo Access to abortion is guaranteed by law in Italy but in practice such access can be difficult to achieve. In October 2022, legislation was proposed that could undermine current abortion…

Summer Peet, Jonathan Cohen, Laura Ferguson, and Sofia Gruskin In 2020, just as COVID-19 was revealing the human rights underpinnings of a global pandemic, one of the world’s largest private philanthropic programs devoted to health and human…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 151-154  PDF VIEWPOINT Ranit Mishori, Payal K. Shah, Karen Naimer, and Michele Heisler  As a provider, I am supposed to counsel my patients on risks and benefits, alternatives, and help them navigate through making…

Raquel Selcer and Sanjna L. Surya The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared the situation in Gaza to be approaching “humanity’s darkest hour”.[1] Israel has killed over 19,000 Palestinians in Gaza to date, over 7,000 of whom are…

William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture of 240 hostages, the Israeli…

Anurima Kumar and Meera Rothman In the face of the glaring humanitarian crisis in Palestine, the silence of American public health institutions has been deafening. After a month of relentlessly bombing Al-Shifa hospital (notably using American…