ISG Faculty, Nicholas Shapiro and Bharat Venkat, co-author an opinon piece for the LA Times: “California will finally have indoor heat standards for workplaces — with a cruel exception”. Excerpt: “A state board recently voted unanimously to create long-awaited indoor heat standards for California workers. After a final legal review, that will mean protections for millions of people with jobs…
March 25, 2023 by ISG faculty, Bharat Venkat [Excerpt] Since the time of the Greek physician Galen, knowing what causes a disease has been taken to be a critical step toward finding its cure (an idea we still hold dear in our time of mysterious syndromes and phantom pains). But a cure that specifically targeted the rod-shaped bacterium that causes…
The NY Times published a guest Opinion Essay by ISG faculty Danielle Carr‘s article “Mental Health is Political”. “What if the cure for our current mental health crisis is not more mental health care? The mental health toll of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the subject of extensive commentary in the United States, much of it focused on the sharp…