This article is part of the following series: Tracking Digital Psy
Introduction
Over the past 15 years, several groups of researchers have sought to use clinical trials to reintroduce psychedelics to mainstream society, reporting impressive efficacy from trials at university sites such as Johns Hopkins, New York University and Imperial College London, in the treatment of clinical targets such as unipolar depression and anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …
This article is part of the following series: Dispatches from the pandemic
On a crisp autumn day in April in Melbourne, my phone has several missed calls from an Indonesian friend. With a heavy heart, I call back to see what might be wrong. As has been the case over the past several weeks, he has grown increasingly restless and confused since the beginning of social distancing and travel restrictions that stem …
This article is part of the following series: Dispatches from the pandemic
My time doing public health work in Guatemala in the 1990s and early 2000s has shaped how I think about emergencies. Working for an underresourced health system, my sensation was that we were always trying to implement new programs in the midst of a perpetual institutional crisis. On top of that, we would have to leave everything to deal with …
Since January 2020, governmental responses to COVID-19 across the globe have been marked by a communication strategy that portrays the measures taken against the pandemic as unprecedented. Examining the case of China, in this short article, I would like to argue that, beyond the level of mere propaganda, this discourse points at the way the party-state perceives itself and its …
Halfway through the pandemic thriller Contagion (2011), one scene exposes some of the challenges of health communication in the digital age. In a live television interview with Ellis Cheever, head of the CDC, the crooked blogger Alan Krumwiede takes the American government to task over its unwillingness to provide clear numbers or explain epidemiological models on an outbreak of the …
This article is part of the following series: Health for all? Critical perspectives on Universal Health Coverage
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes.