Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
A Disease Called Poverty: The Sickness Dismantling Global Health Equity
Leigh Foran, Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2021.08.00067 HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jul 19, 20214 min read
Old is Gold: A Simple Vaccine in the Fight Against a Complex Pandemic
By Mantej Singh, BASIS Ahwatukee, Phoenix, Arizona, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2021.07.00064 Recent headlines have championed the...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jul 9, 20215 min read
Breaking Through Hysteria: Unravelling the Hidden Gender Biases in Healthcare
By Karmen Gill, The Madeira School, McLean, Virginia, USA A woman comes into the emergency room with chest pain and a heart rate of 220...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jul 7, 20214 min read
Gaps in Nigeria’s Flawed System for Universal Health Coverage
By Joshua Payne, Glenforest Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Figure 1. Nigerian hospitals look very different from Canadian...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jul 6, 20215 min read
Racial Disparities in Health: A Closer Look at End-Stage Renal Disease
By Sonnet Xu, Troy High School, Troy, Michigan, USA In the United States, black patients are historically known to suffer more...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jun 22, 20215 min read
What? I Don’t Menstruate
By Alice Zou, Bayview Secondary School, Ontario, Richmond Hill, Canada From a young age, girls learn to hide menstrual products from...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
May 24, 20214 min read
Redlining in The United States: The Ghost of Jim Crow in Modern Health
By Juliet Fang, University High School, Fresno, California, USA An old adage states that an individual’s life expectancy is dependent on...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
May 20, 20215 min read
Epilepsy’s Dark Prevalence in Poverty-Stricken Regions
By Vamsi Nandamuri, Downingtown STEM Academy, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA As 4.6 million people annually add onto the world’s 51.7...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
May 17, 20215 min read
Novel Vaccine Method Could Be a Game-changer for Low-Income Countries
By Noelle Kuhn, Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA More than any other medical advancement, vaccines have arguably been the...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Apr 1, 20216 min read
How COVID-19 Exposed the Flaws of America’s Private Health Insurance System
Dev Ahuja, Solon High School, Solon, Ohio, USA Around the world, America is renowned for the quality of its healthcare system. In fact,...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Mar 12, 20214 min read
Healthcare Disparities in Rural Regions of the United States
By Abby Bojalad, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA From the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to Medicare and Medicaid access,...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Feb 23, 20214 min read
Get The Lead Out: Exploring the Negative Effects of Lead Exposure Across the Globe
By Shalen Murphy, Saline High School, Saline, Michigan, USA In 2014, Flint, Michigan made national headlines when researchers discovered...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Jan 6, 20213 min read
The Struggle for Effective and Equal COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
By Violet Berlin, Jones College Prep, Chicago, Illinois, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2021.01.00034 Distributing the COVID-19...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Dec 29, 20205 min read
A Crisis-Within-A-Crisis: Food Insecurity in the Era of COVID-19
By Juliet Fang, University High School, Fresno, CA, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.12.00032 In 2019, five million children in the...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Dec 3, 20204 min read
The Color of COVID-19: An Exposition of Endemic Disadvantage
By Janaki Nair, Solon High School, Solon, Ohio, USA https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.12.00030 “I can’t breathe.” These are the three...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Aug 22, 20205 min read
Alexa: Play “This Is A Man’s World” by James Brown
By Akshara Ramasamy, The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands, TX https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.08.00019 From...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Aug 15, 20204 min read
Battling Pediatric Cancer: A Monster with Monetary and Geographic Prejudice
By Emma Rifat, The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, MD https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.08.00018 The inequity of global wealth disparity,...
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Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review
Apr 12, 20204 min read
Global Health is a Global Responsibility - Calling for Greater Solidarity
By Yara Changyit-Levin, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.04.00006 It is stomach-churning to watch...
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