Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental human rights and essential components to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG3: Good Health and Well-being and SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation . However, globally, 2.2 billion people still do not have safely managed drinking water services, 4.2 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic handwashing facilities . The significant lack of WASH infrastructure...

Some mental health risk factors disproportionately affect people who are defined as female at birth. These include pressures created by women’s multiple roles, socially constructed differences related to status and power, gender discrimination, associated factors related to the pay gap, domestic violence and sexual abuse . In research terms, more is known about the differences between those assigned male or female at birth in some conditions (schizophrenia and depression) than others. There...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health. Waning effectiveness of anti-infective agents threaten to undermine advances in modern medicine , and reinstate infectious diseases as major causes of death in industrialised countries. Drivers of AMR are diverse and include agri- and aquaculture, environmental contamination , and of course irrational and over-use in human medicine . Like climate change, therefore, AMR is an issue requiring action across multiple fronts. In...