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Personal Essays on Health

Contributors describe how global health has impacted their lives 

Multigenerational Voices from the Wreckage of War-Torn Ukraine
Migration

Multigenerational Voices from the Wreckage of War-Torn Ukraine

by Elena Lesley

We should listen carefully to those under attack, and hear what they have to tell us

A health worker takes a break from her work at a temporary field hospital set up by Doctors Without Borders during the coronavirus disease on July 21, 2020.
Governance

Crashes, Cop Outs, and COVID

by Mareli Claassens

A week in the life of a doctor from Namibia

Gender

The Missing Girls of India: A National Shame

by Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
A girl plays with a deflated balloon as she walks through smog in Delhi, India November 7, 2016.
Migration

Notes from a War-Torn Childhood in Bosnia

by Maja Pašović
Notes from a War-Torn Childhood in Bosnia 
Poverty

Ill-Equipped to Heal

by Luqman Mushila Hodgkinson
A coronavirus disease patient holds up his hand inside the COVID-19 ICU of Machakos Level 5 Hospital, in Machakos, Kenya October 28, 2020.
Poverty

The War on Childhood in Yemen

by Arwa Mokdad
A boy stands in a garbage dump where his family collects food to eat, near the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on January 13, 2018.
Urbanization

I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

by Vineet Kumar Sharma
Health care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 4, 2020. The photo shows two people in blue protective suits wheeling people away from a hospital entrance. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Gender

Cancer Doesn't Stop For You, Millennial

by Ariana Tantillo
Cancer Doesn't Stop For You, Millennial
Migration

"Last to Leave and the First to Die"

by Taylor Hirschberg, Mario El Khoury
"Last to Leave and the First to Die"