The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar set off an era of violence marked by "the highest levels of cruelty and harm to the victims," according to the United Nations. Three years later, Think Global Health data editor Allison Krugman surveys how the war has spawned nearly 1,200 attacks on medical workers and facilities, pushing the health-care system to near-complete destruction.
Switching gears, Mira Cheng, global health media fellow at Stanford University, highlights how Medicine for a Changing Planet, a series of 11 clinical case studies that focus on environmental challenges, is helping medical schools adapt their curricula to account for climate change's threats to health.
We then celebrate International Women's Day with a pair of pieces. The first, by Analyne Rapa Ignacio, Kim Sales, and Reiner Lorenzo Tamayo, unpacks why women make up 70% of the global health workforce and perform "up to four times more unpaid care work than men, a gap that will take 210 years to close."
A second by, the George Institute for Global Health's Janani Shanthosh and Emma Feeny, explores how gender-based violence directly impedes economic empowerment. They highlight their organization's new "CEDAW Index," which addresses a "pressing need for data-driven analyses to hold governments accountable for gender-based violence."
Ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, CFR's Chelsea Padilla examines how Killers of the Flower Moon's depiction of diabetes outlines a greater problem for communities haunted by colonialism.
Until next week!—Nsikan Akpan, Managing Editor, and Caroline Kantis, Associate Editor
