Tamara Pilot is an Assistant Vice President at the University of Chicago, Global Initiatives and Strategy (Uchicago Global). The young woman covered her face with a shaking hand. She was exhausted and scared. The metal birthing chair did not have a cushion or ... More »
The antidote to a lie is the truth. The cure for fabricated news stories is fact-checking. Right?Of course not. If that were true, all the fact checking done over the past five years would have effectively established a shared truth, and fabricated news storie... More »
Guy Whittall-Scherfee recently completed the Writing Persuasive Policy Program with the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.America’s universities are facing a crisis of their own creation. Despite a growing population and increased effort t... More »
Abhishek Yadav contributed to this article.After soldiering through the first COVID-19 wave with a national lockdown and a relatively low death count, India lost a devastating battle with the second wave. Total deaths, which peaked in April, have climbed up to... More »
Dharrnesha Inbah Rajah is a MA in International Development and Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.Beyond witnessing one of the worst pandemics in modern times, 2020 was also the warmest year on record and saw h... More »
Eliana Fram is a MA in International Development and Policy Candidate at Harris School of Public Policy.The teacher points to the blackboard and asks emphatically, “What is an email?” She is asking not because her students do not know the answer, but because s... More »
On May 12th, in the aftermath of the SolarWinds cyber-attack, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to strengthen the United States’ cybersecurity infrastructure and practices. The order covered a broad list of topics, including new policies, processe... More »
Sara Bovat ‘21 graduated with a MA in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy . She can be reached ... More »
Natalia Khosla ‘22 is a MS 4 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at nkhosla@uchicago.edu or natalia.khosla@uchospitals.edu.During one of my medical rotations, my team and I were taking care of a patient stuck in a vicio... More »
Vivek Kumar is a 2021 Graduate student from the Harris School of Public Policy. His policy interests lie around gender based empowerment in South Asia.“Even if I work outside as a laborer and bring home 200 rupees every day, I will still get a beating from my ... More »
Kristen Mathias is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at Kristen.Mathias@uchospitals.edu. Daniel Cabrera is a faculty member in the University of Washington Department of Medicine and contributed to this article.The ... More »
David Alan Johnson is a second-year MPP student and Pearson Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and Research Assistant at the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at the University of Chicago.As the United States celebrates Juneteenth, a ... More »