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1,000 Days: To Save Women, Children and the World
The story of 1,000 days–the vital period from the beginning of a woman's pregnancy to her child's second birthday. The fate of individuals, families, nations–and the world–depends on it.
Classroom Subjects
Public Health
A Steady Hand for Haiti
An Iowa-based medical team has been traveling to rural Haiti for years, assisting residents with health crises while searching for long-term ways to help the people improve their own situations.
India: No Girls for the Boys
Due to cultural preferences for sons, 100 million girls are missing worldwide. Carl Gierstorfer looks at India, a country with a highly skewed sex ratio that threatens to destabilize its society.
How to Lose a Drug War: Heroin, HIV, and the Russian Federation
The Russian Federation confronts two devastating epidemics: widespread heroin abuse and HIV/AIDS. It appears to be losing the battle against both.
South Africa's Healthcare Crisis in the Eastern Cape
Nearly 20 years since the end of apartheid, discrimination in South Africa has a new form. Healthcare inequality has taken the place of forced segregation in rural and urban townships.
Afghanistan's Unsustainable Waters
Trans-boundary water tensions with Iran and Pakistan cast a shadow on the development of Afghanistan's mainly agricultural economy.
A Risky Recipe: Fast Food Boom in Dubai
While the fast food industry in the United Arab Emirate's flourishes, a dramatic increase in obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes threatens the nation’s health.
Thailand's Trash: Is There Room For Sustainability?
In Thailand, one of the world's most rapidly developing countries, sustainability often takes the backseat to economic growth. But rising levels of pollution and depletion could be disastrous.
Confronting the Challenges of Urban Health in the Developing World
Urban public health is one of the most pressing yet neglected issues facing the developing world.
Changing Waters: Cholera Permeates Life in Haiti
Before the international response to the earthquake of 2010 one challenge Haiti didn't face was cholera. Now it does, with 7,000 already dead and a continuing challenge for the entire country.
Japan's Disposable Workers: Lost in the Global Unemployment Crisis
Shiho Fukada documents the lives of disposable workers in Japan in stories that illustrate the global unemployment crisis and the growing gap between rich and poor that has provoked much turmoil.
Statelessness: A Human Rights Crisis
From the slums of Nairobi to the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic to the far reaches of Bangladesh, entire communities live without citizenship rights. They are “the stateless”.
March 01, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Michael Peel
The Financial Times' Michael Peel talks about his reporting in Myanmar as part of a special FT series, 'The Great Land Rush.'
February 12, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Ana P. Santos & Veejay Villafranca
The Philippines has always been able to avoid the HIV epidemic—until now.
February 10, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Carina Storrs
Why don’t certain vaccines work as well in low-income countries as they do in the U.S. and other high-income countries? And how can we shrink the gap?
February 09, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Journalists Julia O'Malley and Katie Orlinsky
How is climate change challenging Native communities across rural Alaska where hunting, fishing and foraging for food anchors cultures and economies? And what happens when whale meat begins to spoil?
February 08, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Laura Bassett and Jake Naughton
Laura Bassett and Jake Naughton traveled to Kenya to take a close look at the devastating impact of a United States policy on the abortion rights of rape victims around the world.
February 04, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ross Velton on "Cornea Donation in Sri Lanka"
Ross Velton describes how Sri Lanka has become a world leader in the supply of corneas. But what's driving this surprising new export?
January 22, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Esha Chhabra
Pulitzer Center grantee Esha Chhabra explores India's healthcare problems, many of which stem from the country's overwhelming pollution.
November 02, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Jon Cohen and Malcolm Linton
Journalist Jon Cohen and photographer Malcolm Linton report from Tijuana, Mexico, where there is a “micro-hyperepidemic” of HIV/AIDS.
July 30, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Daniella Zalcman
Photojournalist Daniella Zalcman discusses her work looking at the public health legacy of Canada's Indian Residential School system.
July 28, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Mathilde Dratwa
Mathilde Dratwa discusses what attracted her to Rhitu Chatterjee’s reporting on India’s school lunch program and describes the challenges of honoring nuanced reporting in short animations.
July 28, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Tim McGirk
Veteran journalist Tim McGirk explains how an ill-considered CIA plan to catch Osama bin Laden in Pakistan led to a polio outbreak that spread beyond borders.
June 29, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Beth Gardiner
Beth Gardiner discusses her reporting from Poland, a country with among the worst coal-driven health problems in Europe.
February 18, 2020 | Middle School, High School
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
August 19, 2019 | All Grades
Food Security and Hunger in the Age of Genetically Modified Crops
Analyzing and understanding the trends for Genetically Modified Crops: How will food security change in Ghana with the innovation of a stronger cowpea?
August 14, 2019 | All Grades
The 1619 Project: Curricular Materials
Reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into the classroom and beyond.
December 27, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Evaluating Climate Change's Impact on Individuals and Ecosystems
Students will evaluate how communities rely on their ecosystems for survival and climate change's impact on their ability to do so by examining the Meitei people's relationship to Loktak Lake.
November 14, 2018 | All Grades
Placing Identity: Planning a Documentary Filmmaking Project
This resource describes methods for producing documentary filmmaking projects with students that make local connections to global issues by outlining the development of the film “Placing Identity.”
October 04, 2018 | High School, College
Evaluating Environmental Reporting at Home and Around the World
What should environmental reporting accomplish, and what creative approaches can journalists take to meeting their goal? Students reflect on these questions and plan a reporting project of their own.
August 27, 2018 | All Grades
Elderly Women in Japan's Prisons: Composing Portraits Reflecting Interviews
In this 30-45 minute lesson, students evaluate how a photojournalist composes portraits of elderly women in Japanese prisons using details from interviews.
July 31, 2018 | All Grades
'Losing Earth' Curricular Materials
Reading comprehension tools, activities and other resources to bring "Losing Earth," The New York Times Magazine's special issue on climate change, into the classroom and beyond.
July 30, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
'Losing Earth' Full Text Summary
A summary of each section of "Losing Earth," a special issue of The New York Times Magazine.
July 30, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
'Losing Earth' Comprehension and Discussion Questions
Comprehension and discussion questions for "Losing Earth," a special issue of The New York Times Magazine.
July 30, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
'Losing Earth' Glossary of Terms
A glossary of term for "Losing Earth," a special issue of the New York Times Magazine.
July 30, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
'Losing Earth' Cast of Characters
The cast of characters for "Losing Earth", a special issue of The New York Times Magazine