Reflections Post

During his internship with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Soroush Moallef witnessed firsthand the impact of Boston's syringe-redemption program.

In September 2025 FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, and FXB Visiting Scientist Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH attended the 2nd Africa-CARICOM Summit in Addis Ababa. This is a brief reflection on that experience.

Children in the criminal justice system have complex physical and mental health needs that are often exacerbated by incarceration and go ignored.

Explicitly including farmworkers in state labor law protections will reduce severe poverty in Massachusetts and improve individual, family, and public health.

How do we bridge the language gap in healthcare settings, particularly those serving under-resourced communities?

Why do local people, who generously welcome forced migrants arriving on their doorstep, often change their attitude as time passes with local solidarity morphing into hostility or even rank xenophobia?

March 11, 2025 marked five years since the World Health Organization declared that the world was in the grips of a pandemic, the first in a century.

On this year’s International Women’s Day, we remember the 74th genocide committed against the Yazidi community in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) over a decade ago. Women and children were abducted, sexually abused, and forced into slavery.

This 2025 Black History Month theme is African Americans and Labor so we recall that “everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work  and to protection against unemployment.”