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Cities are often at the forefront of creative thinking on policy opportunities; this Perspective outlines an agenda for urban health research that promotes a virtuous cycle by which population health and environmental sustainability support and reinforce each other.
Research does not always ‘speak for itself’; high-fidelity uptake of science into policy requires active engagement between researchers and policymakers. This Perspective offers tangible recommendations to help bridge the research-to-policy gap.
The authors present a 5-year action plan that prioritizes high-impact, practical interventions in brain health across six key areas—to safeguard the continent’s health and economic stability alongside projected demographic shifts.
Insights into TB heterogeneity are informing strategies for patient stratification and treatment shortening; this Perspective discusses the formidable challenge of treating this complex disease with strategies that can be implemented across global settings, for effective disease control.
The Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) group defines a standardized framework for amino acid PET imaging of brain metastases for use in clinical trials and eventually in clinical practice to facilitate development of novel therapies and improve patient care.
This Perspective explains how past migrations and environmental exposures have influenced genomic diversity, and how understanding and contextualizing this diversity is crucial to advancing precision medicine and equitable healthcare.
Parkinson’s diseases and other synucleinopathies are on the verge of a major paradigm shift toward being defined and staged by their biology, rather than symptoms; this Perspective offers context on progress, needs and opportunities toward this goal.
