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Special Focus: COVID-19
Education
Q&A: Yidan Prize winner Carl Wieman talks disparities in STEM, education accessibility | The Stanford Daily | October 20, 2020
Business schools must also teach students to be role models in society, education leaders say | Stanford News | October 19, 2020
Campus Conversation focuses on research at Stanford | Stanford News | October 14, 2020
New Dean’s Fellows Program supports H&S graduate students during turbulent times | Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences | October 7, 2020
STS offers new 3-course sequence ‘Race in Science’ | The Stanford Daily | September 21, 2020
Ethics, Society and Technology Hub embeds ethics in teaching and research | Stanford News | September 17, 2020
Many new medical students set sights on research | Stanford Medicine | September 3, 2020
Free online course trains global health care workers on how to respond to COVID-19 | Stanford Medicine | August 25, 2020
Stanford to provide 12-month funding for all Ph.D. students | The Stanford Daily | August 19, 2020
Dangerous Ideas lectures now available to Stanford community | Stanford News | August 19, 2020
Stanford Online offering online courses about civil rights, social justice | Stanford News | July 7, 2020
Air Pollution
At 40%, stubble burning contribution in Delhi’s pollution soars to season’s high | The Hindu | November 1, 2020
Particulates matter: 10 questions for a Stanford researcher on the health hazards of wildfire smoke | Palo Alto Online | October 25, 2020
Breathing in poison | The Daily Star | October 21, 2020
Air pollution killed nearly half a million newborns in 2019, report finds | DW | October 21, 2020
COVID-19 Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: COVID-19 and wildfires | Stanford Medicine | October 14, 2020
Mount Kilimanjaro fire: What is at risk for the local ecosystem? | DW | October 13, 2020
What 'net-zero carbon' really means for cities | BBC | September 22, 2020
Child Cognitive Development
Blood Lead Levels:
Emerging Infections
[See also: Preventing Human Extinction: Catastrophic Threats: Pandemics / Global Health]
Frequently Asked Questions | nipahvaccine | 2023
The Paramyxovirus Family, Nipah Virus, Nipah Vaccines | CEPI | 2023
Virus Hunters makes a strong case that COVID-19 is just the wake-up call | Ars Technica | November 1, 2020
Saving newborn lives is not much costly! | The Daily Star | November 1, 2020
This is how bats survive deadly viruses better than humans | ABC News | October 31, 2020
Study uncovers why bats excel as viral reservoirs without getting sick | Phys.org | October 26, 2020
Plague history shows how a pandemic's course can be shaped | CNN | October 20, 2020
The preexisting conditions of the coronavirus pandemic | Ars Technica | October 18, 2020
Small RNA As A Central Player In Infections | SCIENMAG | October 15, 2020
What’s a virus? | Stanford News | October 14, 2020
A bat signal for pandemics | Axios | October 10, 2020
Jeffrey Glenn awarded grant to develop broad-spectrum antiviral drugs | Stanford News | October 7, 2020
Confronting antimicrobial resistance beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US election | The Lancet | September 29, 2020
The NIH Launches a Global Hunt for Animal-to-Human Diseases | WIRED | September 17, 2020
Stanford students study the stories behind medical breakthroughs | Stanford News | June 25, 2020
Coronaviruses And Bats Have Been Evolving Together For Millions Of Years | SCIENMAG | April 23, 2020
Coronavirus: How do biosafety laboratories work? | DW | April 23, 2020
Review | How Contagion Works: the first book about Covid-19 helps make sense of the pandemic | South China Morning Post | April 23, 2020
Expansion Of World’s Cities Creating ‘New Ecological Niches’ For Infectious Diseases | SCIENMAG | April 21, 2020
Epidemiology: the history of disease and epidemics (Part I, pre-20th Century) | BBC Science Focus | April 8, 2020
Epidemiology: the history of disease and epidemics (Part II, post-20th Century) | BBC Science Focus | April 8, 2020
Epidemiology: A timeline of discoveries | BBC Science Focus | April 8, 2020
How Are Vaccines Actually Made | Interesting Engineering | March 28, 2020
How Vaccines Work: The Complete History of Vaccines | Carrington College | March 12, 2015
Preventing Human Extinction / Planetary Health
Artificial Intelligence (AI):
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Water & Health
Coronavirus: Why hand-washing is a luxury for most Indians | DW | October 15, 2020
Wash your hands: Why this year's Global Handwashing Day is more important now than ever | CNN | October 15, 2020
Why was Victorian London so smelly? | BBC | October 8, 2020
The Indian megacity digging a million wells | BBC | October 6, 2020
The everyday mistake that once killed thousands | BBC | May 6, 2020
Freshwater Initiative: Overview | Stanford Woods Institute | October 11, 2010
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