Associated Press
Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted about Apple’s efforts to diversify its manufacturing and assembly chains away from China, investing in countries such as Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.
Fortune
HNRCA’s Roger Fielding is quoted throughout this article on protein powder supplements.
New York Times
TUSM’s Linden Hu is quoted about current clinical trials of Lyme prevention drugs for humans.
CBS
TUSM’s Vanessa Robinson discusses widespread maternal health inequities detrimentally affecting Black mothers and how advocates and researchers are working to better address Black women’s health.
Boston Globe
This article highlights HNRCA’s collaborative Nutrition for Precision Health Study, a $170 million national research project seeking to enroll 10,000 people nationwide in an effort to develop a way to pinpoint the optimal diet for every person. Sarah L. Booth, Paul J. Fuss and Sai Krupa Das are quoted.
New York Times
Fletcher’s Tom Dannenbaum comments on Israel’s attack on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy saying, “In the case of doubt as to a convoy or person’s status, one is to presume civilian status. And so, attacking in the context of doubt is itself a violation of international humanitarian law.”
The Conversation
Elizabet Stites of the Friedman School’s Feinstein International Center discusses the factors contributing to the rise in aid worker attacks and the implications of the World Central Kitchen workers’ deaths.
Washington Post
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal comments on how cutting Gaza off from aid is a violation of social norms set during conflicts over the past few decades, noting that death from starvation won’t end when hostilities cease. De Waal is the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
WBUR
In this two-part On Point radio segment, Fletcher CIERP faculty affiliate Alvin Camba discusses the online series of scams by Chinese organized crime groups known as pig-butchering as well as his experience being harassed online by these groups for his research into the scams.