How would gathering preclinical data and improving research infrastructure facilitate clearer definitions of “population vulnerability” and “risk acceptability”?

Legal approaches to preserving social stability, maintaining trust, supporting therapeutic research opportunities, or diminishing disease severity deserve ethical scrutiny.

Culturally appropriate responsiveness to mental illnesses is critical to mitigating local persons’ distrust of international clinicians.

This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Connections between racism and dehumanization have immediate, lethal, deleterious, longer-term consequences. Lessons from Nazi eugenics and human experimentation still apply.

A drawing considers an elder with limited English proficiency who understands and who wears a mask.

A portrait illuminates a metaphor for maldistribution of burden of disease, risk exposure, and long-standing inequity in health laid bare to the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 reminds us that hand hygiene is key to individual and public health, but many of us cannot access clean water.

In this oil painting, personal protective equipment is uncomfortable, but perhaps less uncomfortable than knowing our safety depends on others.

Balancing need for global solidarity against local stakeholders’ safety concerns is one source of tension when trying to mitigate global risk.