Iran: The Double Jeopardy of Sanctions and COVID-19
Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, on how US sanctions have aggravated Iran's COVID-19 crisis.
New article, film, and recognition for ICI Fellow Joe Thomas Karackattu
Congratulations to Joe Thomas Karackattu, ICI Fellow ( 2017-2019), and Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Madras, who has a [...]
COVID-19 and Challenges to Teacher Education in Rural Ghana
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system, writes Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries, University of Georgia.
Book Launch- Learning from Shenzhen, Chinese Edition, by TNS Prof. Jonathan Bach
Congratulations to ICI Faculty Affiliate and former Faculty Advisor Jonathan Bach! Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment From Special Zone To Model City (University of Chicago, [...]
The Lesser of Two Evils
The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing forms of domestic and intimate partner violence in Ethiopia, writes Zemdena Abebe, founder of Africolors.
Between Public Health Cooperation and Geopolitical Competition
Suerie Moon, Director of Research at the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, discusses the actors and interests that will determine access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pandemic Warning and the Need to Shine a Light on Slums and Internal Migrants
COVID-19 has underlined the pervasive yet forgotten structural inequities found in cities, write Achilles Kallergis, The New School, and Sheela Patel, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India.
Unmasked in Shenzhen
Artist-ethnographer Mary Ann O’Donnell's photo-diary of the first six months of the pandemic in Shenzhen, China.
Casualties of Preparedness: COVID-19 and the Global Health Security Paradigm
Andrew Lakoff, Professor of Sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California, on the origins of the pandemic preparedness regime, and why it has proven inadequate in responding to the challenge of COVID-19