In response to an imminent surge in COVID-19 cases, the state of Massachusetts (MA) released its Crisis Standards Care (CSC) guidelines April 2020. A small group Boston healthcare providers, community members, lawyers, ethicists and disability advocates brought bear our collective strengths forge a formidable coalition now known as Coalition for Health Equity, champion rights marginalised group...

BACKGROUND Despite national declines in smoking prevalence, disparities that pose challenges to tobacco control efforts exist among rural manufacturing populations. This community case study sought to better understand the dynamics and nuances that facilitate or impede capacity-building efforts in rural communities. CONTEXT Two rural manufacturing communities in Wisconsin with similar demogra...

In this paper we study the traitor tracing problem for re-broadcasting attack. In this attack, instead of building a pirate clone device (or program) based on their secret keys and sell the clone, the attackers want to stay anonymous by redistributing the decrypted content or the actual encrypting keys for the content. To defend against this type of re-broadcasting attack, the content and its a...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...