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5 issues we’re watching at the U.N. General Assembly’s 76th Session

As world leaders gather for the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, they are grappling with multiple emergencies, from COVID-19 to climate change. We look at five public health issues we are following closely.

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“There is a fundamental conflict of interest in the business of selling tobacco and the business of treating its deadly health effects.”

We can’t let medicine – with its underlying ethic of “do no harm” – become part of Big Tobacco’s harm production empire.

Interrupting Sexism in the Workplace and Beyond

Sarah DiMuccio and Negin Sattari of Catalyst, a global nonprofit that works around the world to accelerate women into leadership, spoke to us about their research on how men can interrupt sexism in the workplace and beyond.

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Opinion: Counting everyone to leave no one behind

Devex: While a record of one’s legal identity is taken for granted in many countries, millions of people around the world live and die without any such proof of existence.

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From COVID-19 to Climate Change, UN General Assembly Considers Multiple Global Health Catastrophes

Health Policy Watch: This year’s General Assembly session is considering multiple global catastrophes, from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic to growing political instability exacerbated and highlighted by the inequitable burdens of the pandemic.

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76th U.N. General Assembly Session Marked by Urgency

Here are 5 areas we will be following during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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A Global Tax on Tobacco Products Will Have Massive Health Benefits

Health Policy Watch: COVID-19 has underscored the global threat of tobacco on health.

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MDHHS, Vital Strategies announce September Recovery Month muralists

The collective storytelling of the featured Michigan artists is an opportunity to honor those lost and to offer dignity, empowerment and collective healing for all of us touched by the ongoing overdose crisis.