Tourism Over Health in Mexico & New Year's Best Wishes
Tourism Over Health in Mexico & New Year's Best Wishes
Better health begins with ideas
Editors' Note Greetings and good wishes on this final day of 2021. We close out the year with a piece on Mexico's handling of COVID-19 and its prioritization of tourism over health. An essay by a humanitarian describes the challenges facing LGBTQ+ Afghans attempting to leave Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August. A new piece in our Young Voices in Global Health series looks at the effect of global warming on health and how climate-related health issues should be prioritized—for her generation and those to come. Our Culture Friday feature visits the UCLA Art & Global Health Center through an interview with its engaging curator.
As always, thank you for reading. Here's to a happy, healthy 2022. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors
This Week's Highlights 
by Thalia Porteny, Adolfo Martinez Valle, Felicia Marie Knaul, Hector Arreola, Michael Touchton, and Renzo J.C. Calderon Anyosa 
by Taylor Hirschberg and Mario El Khoury 
by Shivani Shah And how leadership dropped the ball at the twenty-sixth UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)
Stat of the Week 82 Million As of this month, approximately 82 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes
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by Mary Brophy Marcus A creative curator and his team meld public health and art to educate communities around the globe
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Biden Lifts Omicron-Related Travel Restrictions on Eight Southern African Countries (CBS News) 
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