Elizabeth Daube

UCSF experts share some tips. Do you need every single one of them? Maybe not. Will you read them anyway? Yeah, probably.

Companies claim there’s bad stuff in our homes and bodies, and we should pay to purge it. What’s worth worrying over?

Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. A flurry of innovations could change how we confront cancer.

Marketers say microorganisms can fix a lot of what ails us. Do scientists agree?

Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality and racism. Both issues have roots in the same problem.

About 99 percent of rape and sexual assault cases in India go unreported. Survivors across the country have joined the "Dignity March," sharing their stories and calling for an end to the shame they’ve faced in their communities.

Every two seconds, another girl gets married. Why?

After months of planning, it wasn’t clear whether Awaaz-e-Niswaan’s bicycle rally was going to happen. More than 70 teenage girls waited near a busy Mumbai intersection, fanning themselves in a vain attempt to stave off the afternoon heat...

Hundreds of Maya Achi people were murdered to make way for a dam in Guatemala. Decades later, their families finally find justice.

The first-ever World Development Report devoted entirely to education explains why countries across the globe have succeeded at rapidly increasing the number of children in school--but have not had the same success with helping those children actually learn.

Rekha Sapkal earns her living by sorting out recyclables from garbage, a difficult and sometimes dangerous job that’s fallen to very low-income families in India. Rekha presumed her daughters would have no choice but to follow the same path--until she got involved with Kashtakari Panchayat.

Despite global praise for Burma's democratic reforms, the country hasn't resolved its decades-long legacy of ethnic persecution. Burma's refugees fear what will happen to them next.

The New York Times affiliate Women in the World featured a video I produced for American Jewish World Service.

Garment workers and Cambodia’s struggle for human rights

After months of research on sex workers, violence and HIV around the world, I’d heard what the public health and policy wonks had to say. Some portrayed sex workers as victims suffering unimaginable abuse; others depicted them as empowered entrepreneurs...