Joseph Friedman

Joseph Friedman is an MD/PhD student at the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities at UCLA.

A girl in a red uniform peeks through the fence of her school in Nairobi, Kenya, after the 2021 school year was delayed
Gender

COVID-19 Led to Worse Social and Economic Consequences for Women

by Joseph Friedman, Luisa S. Flor, Emmanuela Gakidou

Around the globe, the pandemic set back girls and women in education, work, and homes

Teachers and their children wait to board a government chartered bus bringing people back to schools of countryside towns in Dakar, Senegal on May 28, 2020.
Gender

Gender Equality in the Global Return to School

by Joseph Friedman, Silvia Montoya, Emmanuela Gakidou

COVID-19 is threatening to unravel decades of progress on women's education