NATO for Health, Insulin, Women's Protests, Fast Food, & A New Film

January 14, 2022

Better health begins with ideas

Editors' Note

This week has continued to see omicron marching across the globe, with the newest sweep occurring in Europe where the COVID-19 variant is expected to crest in the weeks ahead. As we continue to explore how world leaders, nations, and communities can collaborate on future pandemics and other urgent health threats, we feature a piece that argues that the "NATO for Health" approach, proposed in Think Global Health in November, is the wrong way to address global needs.

Many people with diabetes, who rely on daily medications and regular health care, have gone without treatment or have scrambled for new resources over the past couple of years, explain the authors of a new piece on reduced access to diabetes supplies during COVID-19. The past few years have seen protests from women the world over, even in countries where the rights of women and girls have long been muted by leaders. A new slideshow captures moments from recent women's marches and movements.

For our ongoing Young Voices in Global Health series, this week's author, from Kenya, examines how fast food is changing culture, the economy, and health in her country, and neighboring nations. Our Culture Friday offering features a review of the award-winning film Flee, an animated documentary based on the true story of a man who fled Afghanistan as a child and his experiences as a refugee—but more precisely, as a human—first in Russia, then in Denmark.

As always, thank you for reading. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors  