As many as one in five Canadian households can be considered to be in energy poverty. That may be more than face food insecurity.

"...what happens when something new and scary comes along? Pre-syndromic surveillance provides a safety net to identify emerging threats..."

The HIV pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic are similar in key ways. Both exposed inequalities, became politicized, and require nuanced messaging.

Gathering better data, and making them accessible to health leaders, could help close the gaps between urban and rural public health.

Places where tropical diseases are now unknown—Canada and parts of Northern Europe, for instance—are due to become prime real estate for mosquitoes.

Advancing oceans are already displacing some small indigenous communities. New research starts to consider the effects on public health.