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Policy & Ethics

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5-Dec-2025

Helping health care providers navigate social, political, and legal barriers to patient care

University of California - Santa Cruz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new case study in “The Lancet” offers tips for health system leaders on how and when to call in outside resources and organizations

Journal: The Lancet

5-Dec-2025

Beyond biology: Why social context is the key for improving modern medicine

University of California - Berkeley
Reports and Proceedings

A new monthly series in The Lancet is going beyond clinical diagnoses, tapping experts from the social sciences and humanities, as well as community members from around the world. The resulting cases provide a critical lens into the cultural and social forces that contribute to each patient’s condition — not just the biological factors. Each unpacks a framework or concept in the social sciences and humanities that researchers hope readers will incorporate into their own practice, leadership or policy-making.

Journal: The Lancet

5-Dec-2025

Although public overwhelmingly supports hepatitis B vaccine for a newborn, partisan differences exist

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Reports and Proceedings

Most Americans would be likely to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for a newborn, according to a new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

5-Dec-2025

Duncan T. Moore named Optica Honorary Member

Optica
Grant and Award Announcement

Optica names Duncan Moore as an Honorary Member for his pioneering contributions to gradient-index optics, leadership in public policy, dedicated service to the optics community and distinguished roles in academia, government and professional societies.

5-Dec-2025

DFG to fund eleven new research training groups

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant and Award Announcement

Topics range from malformations of the cerebral cortex to restoring diversity in our diet / Approximately €82 million for the first funding period

5-Dec-2025

Subnational income inequality revealed: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally

Aalto University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study is the first to comprehensively map three decades of income inequality data within 151 nations around the world. Despite finding that income inequality is worsening for half the world’s people, the study also indicates that effective policy may be helping to bridge the gap in ‘bright spots’ –– in administrative areas that account for around a third of the global population.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

5-Dec-2025

Shaping quantum light unlocks new possibilities for future technologies

University of the Witwatersrand
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study surveys rapid progress in techniques capable of creating, manipulating and detecting quantum structured light. These include on-chip integrated photonics, nonlinear optics, and multiplane light conversion, which now form a modern and increasingly powerful toolkit.

Journal: Nature Photonics