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A Resource Guide for Museum Accountability and Decolonization

Following the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, many museums and museum professionals reignited long-held discussions surrounding the nature of the museum as an institution and the ethics revolving around their collections. This is a resource guide, in book form, for those inside and outside the museum industry who want to initiate change regarding the way non-Western art is presented and displayed, or for those who want to learn about the history of the colonial museum. This book features N

Devastating health issues caused by Sudan crisis in 2023: a ... : IJS Global Health

Sudan is presently experiencing the impact of a severe humanitarian crisis. The civil war in Sudan erupted on Apr 15, 2023, marked by intense confrontations among the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces1, resulting in explosions and shelling incidents that unfolded in the capital city of Khartoum as well as Omdurman1. The internal conflict has inflicted severe damage upon the health care system, manifesting through the destruction of health infrastructure, disruption of supply cha
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‪Barriers And Facilitators For Implementing The Who Safe Childbirth Checklist In Mozambique: A Qualitative Study Using The Consolidated Framework For Implementation Research (cfir)‬

High maternal and neonatal mortality rates persist in Mozambique, with the issues of stillbirth remaining understudied. Most maternal and neonatal deaths in the country are due to preventable and treatable direct childbirth-related complications that often occur in low-resource settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) in 2015 to reduce adverse birth outcomes. The SCC, a structured list of evidence-based practices, targets the main causes of mat

‪“So We Create Happy Synergies” How An Overall Enabling Environment Helped Lao Pdr Legislate The Who Code On Breastmilk Substitutes: Lessons Learnt‬

Exclusive breastfeeding rates in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) remain at 44% against a global goal of at least 50%, partly due to a weak understanding of the multifactorial and multilevel determinants of breastfeeding (UNICEF, 2021). Therefore, evidence-based advocacy efforts call for a systems approach to improve the enabling environment around breastfeeding.This study aims to stitch together the comprehensive patchwork of actors and dynamic ‘gears’ in the socio-ecological environm

Reproductive Trauma Narratives from Rural India

Manali Karmakar draws on the illness narratives of three women from rural India to showcase how caste, gender, and sociocultural and geographical location strongly shape reproductive health and well-being.

India is acknowledged as one of the few nations that has enforced the most progressive reproductive laws for promoting the holistic well-being of women. Way back in 1971, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act was enacted to enable women to access safe and affordable abortion services

Global Collaborations in Harm Reduction: University of Jordan and Yale

From September 19th – 23rd, 2022, five faculty members from the University of Jordan (UJ) traveled from Jordan to New Haven to meet with Yale students and faculty as part of the Yale-UJ Joint Training Program in Addiction Medicine.


In late 2021, faculty from the Yale Institute for Global Health Global Addictions Network and faculty from The University of Jordan School of Pharmacy received a $158,466 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of State to create a joint addiction training progra

Women’s strategies addressing sexual harassment and assault on public buses: an analysis of crowdsourced data - Crime Prevention and Community Safety

This paper uses crowdsourced data on women’s self-reports of harassment and assault on public buses in India. The data provide a basis to identify the strategies that women use to respond to and manage this everyday threat. The study examines 137 accounts of assault collected by a crowdsourced platform in which women detail, keeping silent (n = 27), fleeing (n = 38), or resisting (n = 72) such an assault. Findings show that confronting incidents in the moment by “making a scene” and “engaging th

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