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In public health, we spend years preparing for a crisis we hope never comes to pass. It’s a strange thing to work in a field where the clearest signs of success are often ordinary moments, like a child walking into school healthy, energized, and ready to learn. If we’ve done our job right, that child…

Finland is transforming its summer travel economy by packaging traditional wood-fired saunas, lake swimming, and digital detox through the Chill Like a Finn campaign, which drew approximately 24,000 international applications by May 2026. Rather than focusing solely on winter Lapland corridors, Visit Finland’s strategic roadmap seeks to leverage eastern Lakeland routes to increase average visitor…

As concerns about food contamination and foodborne illnesses make headlines across the country, public health researchers say states should pay closer attention to another factor that can influence future outbreaks: climate change. Experts argue that shifts in temperature, rainfall and other environmental conditions can alter how disease-causing organisms survive and spread, potentially affecting both agriculture…

The coronavirus 2019 pandemic disrupted food purchasing behaviours, triggering both short- and long-term nutritional shifts. Here, analysing 9,367,550 weekly shopping baskets from over 30,000 US households (2017–2022), combined with county-specific policies and artificial intelligence-enhanced nutrition profiling, we document distinct changes in household food baskets. During the pandemic and lockdowns, households increased spending on less processed…