Tobacco Tax and Health Financing in the Philippines: Instructor's Note

This web portal from Everytown for Gun Safety compares gun policies across the U.S., scoring each state on the strength of its gun laws and rates of gun violence in 2024. Users can explore data for each U.S. state and view how they stack up on 50 key policies related to gun safety, spanning foundational laws, gun industry and product safety, guns in public, keeping guns out of the wrong hands, policing and civil rights,…

This report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) examines the right to self-determination and rights to land, territories, and natural resources at the core of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The relationship indigenous peoples’ have to their lands and territories sits at the core of their cultural identities, as knowledge on the preservation of their environment is passed down from generation to generation. The right of…

This case study examines the controversy that followed a 2002 report suggesting that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increased heart disease and stroke risk among postmenopausal women. The report reversed two decades of standard HRT practices and resulted in confusion and anguish for millions of women who were either abruptly taken off hormones or denied treatment. Through this case, students consider the how results were shaped by research methods, raising questions about what constituted reliable evidence.…