Zul Surani, Chair of the Asian Pacific Islander National Cancer Survivors...
Zul R.H. Surani is manager for community outreach and partnerships at the University of Southern California’s Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also the co-founder and director of Saath USA, a...
View ArticlePolicy Round Up: Affordable Care Act
Republican Governor Rick Scott announced his support of Medicaid expansion this Wednesday. This was surprising due to his avid disagreement with the Affordable Care Act prior to last year’s Supreme...
View ArticleThe Life Expectancy of People with Down Syndrome
Most of us familiar with Down‘s Syndrome know that it brings characteristic facial features and delayed or impaired cognitive development. People with Down, however, are also more vulnerable than the...
View ArticleRe-imagining the Future in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a small country in the south Pacific not too far from Australia’s northern-most tip. It’s fascinating and beautiful, made up of more than 600 islands and 800 languages. A full...
View ArticleTeen Pregnancy is the Main Reason Girls Drop Out of School. Let’s Change This.
One in three teenage girls who have dropped out of high school give pregnancy or parenthood as the key reason. Once they leave, only half of them complete their high school education by age 22,...
View ArticlePerceptions of Overweight: Parallels Between Obesity and Eating Disorders
At a family reunion that I recently attended, I was approached by one of my distant cousins with a revelation that immediately stopped me in my tracks: “I need to lose weight.” What was troubling about...
View ArticleUnwarranted Stigma in Sickle Cell Disease
Congress designated September as National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month to help focus attention on the need for research and treatment of sickle cell disease. Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why "World Toilet Day" Matters
It’s been 12 years since November 19 was first deemed World Toilet Day. This year, though, there’s a lot more fanfare. That’s because the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that,...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Big Soda Moment: Why Access to Sugary Drink Information Is a...
Baltimore’s corners are often associated with the public health threat presented by illicit drug dealing and use but there is another, more unassuming, danger lurking inside corner stores and...
View ArticleThe Power of Parks
If you were to take a drive through the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, your route may take you down the historic main street with its quaint shops and local eateries. Eventually, you would stop at Avenue...
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