UPDATE:
Starting July 1, the Tufts International Travel Policy will require advanced registration through the Tufts Travel Registry for university business-related international travel.
15 Years After the Eradication of Rinderpest, Lessons Still Ring True
Research from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine helped rid the world of a deadly virus. That experience may help prevent future disease outbreaks
Shai Tratt’s Hope for Argentina’s Stolen Children
An internship in Buenos Aires led to a deep connection with a movement to help families torn apart by military dictatorship
A Professional Headstart: Fletcher’s Combined Degree Program
As they learn alongside diplomats and military officers, Tufts undergraduates can earn a master's degree—and gain early access to the Fletcher network
How to Lose a War
Overconfidence is the Achilles’ heel of leaders who think they’ve got an easy victory—and other lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Ukraine
To Help Refugees, Focus on Cities
Many displaced people end up in urban areas, and the best way to assist them is to support the host communities, says Fletcher expert
Tufts Global In the News
How the Whole-Grain Trend Went Wrong
Atlantic
Distinguished Professor, Friedman School Dean Emeritus, and FIMI Director Dariush Mozaffarian, identified as a Tufts cardiologist and a nutrition researcher, explains that many whole grain products are “molecularly disassembled,” making their digestibility similar to refined grains, and how this may impact the gut microbiome.
Upping the ante in Iran
The World
Fletcher Distinguished Professor Daniel Drezner discusses various high-stakes political strategies, such as brinkmanship and the “madman strategy,” being employed by President Donald Trump in the conflict with Iran.
‘It’s a safe space’: Mobile midwifery clinics meet patients where they are
the 19th News
School of Medicine’s Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, founder and director of the Center of Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice, says that mobile midwifery “reimagines care as something that should be responsive to the needs of patients and should be community-centered.”