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Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences

As a psychiatrist, I understand the realities of the mental health stressors that exist from this global pandemic and the potential for an increase in psychological care needs now and in the aftermath. However, it’s possible that we emerge from this with innumerable positive mental-health outcomes, writes Jessica Gold.

Steven Webster, post-doctoral research fellow, Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy

John Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion

Jessica Gold, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry

Michael Sherraden and other Brown School faculty members write an article saying the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear the importance of ensuring poor Americans have access to banks and other modern financial tools — and they propose a way to provide such access.

Visualizations that avoid perceptual distortions and play to cognitive strengths can improve public understanding of the evolving pandemic, writes Jeffrey Zacks.

The rampant spread of COVID-19 in the St. Louis region provided a unique opportunity to study the relationship between social and structural determinants of health and adverse outcomes, including death in African Americans and whites infected with COVID-19, writes Will Ross.

We need to reinvest in a coordinated homelessness prevention system, write Jason Purnell and Patrick Fowler. It provides a smart and equitable investment. We dismantled homelessness prevention when the stimulus money ran out and HUD priorities shifted toward serving the most vulnerable. Now, we need to think creatively about pooling regional resources for a rapid and robust homelessness prevention system.

Patrick Rishe, director, Sports Business Program