PReP Dispatches
PReP working groups are posting short dispatches that unpack COVID-related problems everyday people are facing. The dispatches, typically only a few pages each, also propose solutions to those problems. They aim to reframe debates about the nature of the pandemic and what to do about it. The dispatches are open-access and available for reprinting under a Creative Commons license.
Dispatch 1. Firefighters and EMTs in This Time of COVID-19
Dispatch 9. Farming, pandemics, and a conservation program aimed at enriching the Global North
Dispatch 2. What is mutual aid? A COVID-19 primer
Dispatch 3. Globalized food systems, structural inequality and COVID-19
Dispatch 4. Fixing COVID-19-related disparities and the national security thread of a fragile food system
Dispatch 5. Neglecting nutrition: How a pandemic has exposed health disparities in the rural U.S.
Dispatch 6. Can agriculture stop COVID-21, -22, and -23? Yes, but not by greenwashing agribusiness
Dispatch 7. Scientists say land use drives new pandemics. But what if “land” isn’t what they think it is?
Dispatch 8. To live and die in Los Angeles: COVID-19, structural stress, and the path to a more resilient public health
Special Report. Learning from Covid: A community-based approach to pandemic planning
Dispatch 10. COVID libertarianism from left to right derailed U.S. public health: Can a people’s program in collective choice get it back on track?
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Pandemic Research for the People is a crowd-funded effort aimed at conducting research on questions that will directly help communities around the world during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.