Greetings and good wishes on this final week of 2022. We close out the year with two slideshows and one worrisome interview.
Think Global Health published 175 articles this year; our first slideshow highlights the best ones. The topics covered include a government contest in Japan to spur alcohol use, what growing old looks like in China, the proliferation of microplastics, femicide in Pakistan, and the nation-leading opioid crisis in Washington, DC. As a special bonus to our newsletter subscribers, we recommend this piece by David P. Fidler on Tucker Carlson's segment on the potential pandemic accord.
Our second slideshow highlights our annual end-of-year book recommendations. They range from the serious and wonderful—Octavia Butler’s gripping Parable of the Sower and Emily Mendenhall’s Unmasked, a small town casestudy of COVID-19—to the simply wonderful and diverting—Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke and Project Hail Mary, Andrew Weir’s novel about astronauts and astrophages.
Finally, our colleague Chen Chen closes the year with an insightful, but worrisome interview with Ali H. Mokdad, chief strategy officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), on the latest projection on COVID in China.
As always, thank you for reading. Here’s to a happier, healthier 2023. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors
