NBC News
A&S quantum computing researcher Sola Mahfouz discusses her efforts to bring awareness to the Taliban’s law banning Afghan girls from attending school, including developing online educational resources for women in Afghanistan and curriculum for teachers in the U.S. to educate students. Mahfouz is the author ofDefiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for an Education
STAT
TUSM Maine Track student Amanda Masse coauthors this opinion piece exploring why a federally mandated waiting period for sterilization procedures, created to protect individuals against forced or nonconsensual sterilization, is prohibiting equitable access to reproductive care and fertility control for people without private health insurance.
Marketplace
Fletcher’s Barbara Kates-Garnick comments on why private industrial sector industries are reluctant to take action to decarbonize on their own saying, “They see huge risks, they see huge investment. You need to have government funding in all of this.”
NPR
Paul Howe, director of the Friedman School’s Feinstein International Center, joins Weekend Edition Sunday to discuss the “common denominator” of conflict that is contributing to imminent famines across the globe including Gaza, Haiti, and Sudan.
NPR
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal joined this All Things Considered segment to discuss the imminent famine in Gaza.
Guardian
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal examines the conditions under which famine is unfolding in Gaza.
New York Times
Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian comments on a new time-restricted eating study, calling it “very problematic.”
Wired
TUSM’s Linden Hu comments on a trial he led for Tarsus Pharmaceuticals that shows an experimental new pill could provide humans with protection against tick-borne Lyme disease for several weeks at a time.
Salon
TUSM Dean, Tufts Medicine Chief Academic Officer, and Tufts Medical Center Infectious Disease Physician Helen Boucher discusses the decline in measles vaccinations and the threat of the current resurgence of the disease in the United States.