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Finally, if online giving grows at the expense of offline donations, causes that don’t get much news coverage, like ending homelessness or stopping deforestation, may begin to lose funding as public attention shifts to the issue of the week. Some research shows that online donors tend to spend less when they later send an offline donation, although it is unclear how this will affect the overall distribution of charity dollars in the long...
...fulfill the practice requirement of my Master of Public Health degree, I decided to conduct an epidemiological analysis of spatial and temporal all-cause mortality in the Strip since Aug. 2005, when the Israel Defense Forces redeployed to the periphery of Gaza and Israel’s settlements there were withdrawn...
Despite the existence of this mechanism and its regular employment, the U.S. embassy refused to send a fax to the ministry with only a copy of my passport and a letter from the Harvard School of Public Health explaining my reason for travel to Gaza. “We do not offer that service,” the Chief of American Citizen Services told me. “You don’t help Americans communicate with the Egyptian government?” I asked indignantly after having been in Cairo for two weeks. “Not about traveling...
...wrecked environment, drinking the saline, contaminated, and infected water, and walking through hospitals starved of medicines and surgical equipment. Research in a place like Gaza is inherently risky. But the work of academics like myself is important, both to me personally and to such disparate fields as public health and strategic analysis. I understand that travel to a land under siege and ruled by force is dangerous. But I accepted these risks. Why did the U.S. government block my work...
Feroze Y. Sidhwa is an M.P.H. candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health and a fourth year medical student in Texas...