Better data can spotlight social problems and identify those in need. Bloomberg Businessweek August 17, 2021 The popular perception of Asian Americans is that they are “doing well” in terms […]
Scientific American Funders and peer reviewers are contributing to systemic racism through their biases about members of these populationsJuly 8, 2021 GO TO ARTICLE For instance, the Midwest Longitudinal Study […]
Along with Pacific Islanders, they suffer from disproportionately high death rates and hospitalizations and low testing—but their suffering remains invisible Scientific American May 6, 2021 Headlines, health experts and policy […]
Scientific American March 2, 2021 Statistics suggest they are—but numbers often don’t include the most vulnerable with limited English Like many low-wage restaurant workers in Boston, Su Hua Mei and […]
Washington Post February 19, 2020 About two years ago in northern Uganda, I watched anxiously as an endangered pangolin was released into a protected forest. Wildlife authorities and conservationists had […]
The Lancet August 31, 2019 Behind the beautiful touristic sand beaches, sober recovery houses provide safe havens for the thousands of people dealing with heroin addiction in Zanzibar. Amy Yee […]
New York Times May 12, 2019 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men […]
Dateline (Overseas Press Club magazine) April 18, 2019 At a prison in Thiès, Senegal, a group of women in fine dresses cut from the same colorful fabric enact […]
New York Times September 22, 2018 By Amy Yee KIGALI, Rwanda — The kitchen of Ecole Secondaire Kanombe Efotec, a boarding school here, is busy from dawn to dusk while the staff […]
Stanford Social Innovation Review August 2018 Harriet Nakalyango sells water and farms a small plot of land to make a living on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. After she married at age 16 […]
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