Insights and Reflections
About
The FXB Center’s Insights and Reflections page is where knowledge meets purpose—a space dedicated to sharing the research, ideas, and news that drive our work. For over three decades, our commitment to equity has guided every endeavor, shaping meaningful conversations and scholarship. Here, we share reflections and engage with scholars and practitioners from around the world, providing insights into the urgent issues we have long championed, with a special focus on children and their well-being.
Reflections
Raising the bar: The need for high-quality healthcare for incarcerated youth
Children in the criminal justice system have complex physical and mental health needs that are often exacerbated by incarceration and go ignored.

Testimony for Act Establishing Fairness for Agricultural Laborers
Explicitly including farmworkers in state labor law protections will reduce severe poverty in Massachusetts and improve individual, family, and public health.

Transcending the language barrier in healthcare: A Q&A with Siddharth UR and Linh Pham
How do we bridge the language gap in healthcare settings, particularly those serving under-resourced communities?

How can governments strengthen the solidarity of locals toward forced migrants?
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?

Marking five years of COVID
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.

International Women’s Day: The Yazidis’ global quest for justice
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.

Black History Month 2025
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.”

Insights
AP World News
Gaza has been at risk of famine for months, experts say. Here’s why they haven’t declared one

UNICEF
Number of severely malnourished children doubles in North Darfur as nutrition crisis deepens across Sudan

The Guardian
Why it’s so easy for the US to cut children’s access to healthcare: ‘There’s no right to these programs’

The New York Review
Gaza: The War on Dialysis
Originally published as “Gaza: The War on Dialysis,” The New York Review of Books, June 24, 2025. Copyright © 2025 AMRO HAMADA

Harvard Kennedy School Faculty & Research Social Policy Topics
Workers experiencing rising indoor heat exposure, according to new report

Inside Climate News
Why a Fan Can’t Always Cool You Down, and Other Unexpected Challenges in Heat Waves

CNN Videos
How NIH funding cuts are hitting kids with near-fatal allergies, according to this doctor

The New York Times | Visual Investigation
Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza

The Associated Press | World News
Takeaways from AP’s report on the growing dangers for pregnant women in Gaza’s ruins

Physicians for Human Rights
Those Who Fled Torture, Persecution Treated “As Less Than Animals” by U.S. Officials Before Expulsion to Panama

UN News: Global perspective – Human stories
Hunger stalks Ethiopia as UN aid agency halts support amid funding cuts

JAMA Network | Perspective | Climate Change and Health
Health Care System Adaptation and Resilience During the Wildfire Crisis

CNN World
Accounts of child survivors shed light on surge of rape and sexual violence in conflict-torn DRC

The Lancet
Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis
