Tom Paulson
Humanosphere BloggerThe host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).
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It’s a safe bet. Sending cardboard boxes to poor countries will be the next big global child health initiative.The use of cardboard boxes as child beds in… -
Delaney Ruston spent a lot of her early days as a physician working in clinics for the poor and disenfranchised, like Berkeley Free Clinic and, later,…
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Sumi Abedin was making 18 cents an hour as a seamstress, putting together garments for Sean “P Diddy” Combs’ clothing line (known as Sean John Clothing)… -
Malaria remains one of the world’s biggest killers and also a massive economic drag on poor countries, poor families.One of our best weapons against this… -
Game designer Jane McGonigal thinks gaming can save the world, or at least help make it a better place.“I know you’d rather hear that these games are… -
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks safe sex isn’t as much fun as it should be.At least, that seems to be the gist of one request for a grant… -
Melinda Gates is running full tilt against the Catholic Church on family planning and now the philanthropy’s blog is pumping out this thinly disguised… -
Today’s Seattle subversives are pretty low-key, superficially boring even — smiling at you in their wrinkled clothing, offering tea and cookies, mumbling… -
“Good science is based on uncertainty, on having an open mind and dealing with the unknown,” said Dr. Jim Kublin, executive director of the HIV Vaccine… -
Three of the area’s leading organizations at the forefront of this movement – Hub Seattle, Social Venture Partners and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute –…
