Marc Silver
Marc Silver, who edits NPR's global health blog, has been a reporter and editor for the Baltimore Jewish Times, U.S. News & World Report and National Geographic. He is the author of Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond and co-author, with his daughter, Maya Silver, of My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks: Real-Life Advice From Real-Life Teens. The NPR story he co-wrote with Rebecca Davis and Viola Kosome -- 鈥� won a Sigma Delta Chi award for online reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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As summer travel surges, so does COVID. Experts share advice on how to prepare ahead of time in case you are infected on a vacation or visit 鈥� and what to do if you get that dreaded positive test. -
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf gives advice to women in politics, tells how she found out about her Nobel 鈥� and details her efforts to gain allies in the fight against the oft forgotten disease of malaria. -
Cases are surging in some regions but dropping in many places. If you're in the latter situation, is it OK to go back to living as you did pre-pandemic? Print our handy zine with advice from experts. -
We cover global health and development in our blog 鈥� but this time we want to hear from you via a new readership survey. -
Did you even know the U.S. has a malaria czar? Who himself had malaria as a kid? We interview Dr. Raj Panjabi, newly appointed by President Joe Biden. -
How does a herd decide which direction to head in? Researchers put GPS collars on a gathering of goats to find out. Here's what they learned 鈥� and how it might apply to humans. -
SNL guest host Dan Levy got nudged by a pool noodle! That's one way to enforce physical distancing. We've got other tips at keeping your 6 feet 鈥� something humans are not very good at.
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TV correspondents and pundits spoke it, Twitter users typed it. They said the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was what happens in "Third World" countries. There's a problem with that. -
In a Kenyan fishing village along Lake Victoria, women fought the practice of fishermen demanding sex in exchange for a catch of fish to sell. They were making progress. Then came the floods of 2020. -
The betterment of childhood vaccination rates has been a global success story. A new report on the impact of the pandemic offers reason for concern 鈥� and optimism.
