Insights and Reflections

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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

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.
Manhattan. New York / USA - March 26 2020: Empty streets of New York at Times Square 42nd street during pandemic virus Covid-19. Photo: Tetiana/Shutterstock.

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.” 
Mary Bassett, MD, MPH

Insights

JAMA Network | Perspective | Climate Change and Health

Health Care System Adaptation and Resilience During the Wildfire Crisis

Wide-shot view of a ferocious wildfire spreading across a hillside, with intense flames engulfing the landscape. Credit: Arprince / Shutterstock.
The New York Times

The Entire Future of American Public Health Is at Risk

Blue and white cut outs of vial, syringe, pill cases. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.
CNN World

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

Sprawling displacement camps are seen on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, housing people displaced by the recent surge in fighting. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Getty Images.
Nature

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

The main historical building on the campus of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Credit: Gibson Green/Alamy
Reuters

The lives lost in Gaza

A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far.
Graphic representation of fatalities during conflicts in Gaza.
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America

Health as Peace: Structural Violence and Cholera in Haiti

Image of IV fluid bag hanging fro rusty metal pole in rural area clinic. Credit: Rebecca Rollins, Partners in Health
The Economist

Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States

Man sitting on hammock with baby in his arms. AP.
The Lancet

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

Graphs showing proportion of deaths in Gaza between October 2023 and June 2024 broken down by month, age group, and male vs. female.
Stateline

Race and place can contribute to shorter lives, research suggests

Calvin Gorman, 50, left, walks last year near Gallup, N.M., on the way from his job in Gallup to his home in Fort Defiance, Ariz., part of the Navajo Nation. American Indians in Western and Midwestern states had the lowest life expectancy of any group in the country in 2021. (Tim Henderson/Stateline)
KFF Health News

The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans

Image of boy looking at map of the world. Moment/Getty
LAist

Kid safety after wildfire

Zahrah Mihm (L) holds her son Ethan as they look for clothes after being displaced by the Eaton Fire, at a donation center in Santa Anita Park, Arcadia. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images.
NPR

Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress

Morris Brown, a primary care physician, listens to Sarah McCutcheon’s heartbeat in the exam room at his medical office in Kingstree, South Carolina, which sits in a region that suffers from health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic diseases. (Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News)
European Roma Rights Centre

Human Rights Report Catalogues Structural Discrimination Against Romani Refugees from Ukraine

Graphic of woman and child against city backdrop