Archive: Thu Aug 2020

Color-coded life expectancy: People in blue states are living longer than people in red

August 06, 2020

Our former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Jennifer Karas Montez, along with our associate director Jason Beckfield, and their colleagues have published a study in The Milbank Quarterly that looks at how changes in state…

Map of the United State with Red and Blue States

Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of "food shocks" during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19

August 06, 2020

With one out of two children in India suffering from one form of malnutrition, there are many more who are hovering just above that threshold. The findings of this paper published in the Journal of Global Health Science estimate that even a slight shock…