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She secretly educated herself to escape Afghanistan. Now, she’s working to help women still there

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

Eliminate the waiting period for sterilization covered by Medicaid

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.

Biden allocates $6 billion for low-carbon industrial production

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.”

Why the measles outbreak keeps me up at night

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.