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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Gavin Yamey _Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health._ ## Gavin Yamey *  Jun 20, 2025 ### [Letting Trans Kids Play Sports Benefits All Kids](https://time.com/7296246/transgender-kids-play-sports/) "States with policies allowing trans girls to play sports have seen increased rates of sports partic... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 3, 2025 ### [Why Freezing U.S. Foreign Aid Is Risky](https://time.com/7212435/gavin-yamey-essay-trump-foreign-aid-disease/) President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending freeze on U.S. foreign aid has immediate health consequen... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 25, 2024 ### [How Every Country Can Halve Premature Death by 2050](https://time.com/7197746/combatting-premature-death/) There's a clear path for combatting premature death, write Gavin Yamey, Dean Jamison, and Justina Se... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 2, 2024 ### [The Election Will Shape Global Health](https://time.com/7027503/harris-trump-election-global-health/) Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump differ starkly on global health, writ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 6, 2024 ### [How to Fix the Global System for Distributing Mpox Shots](https://time.com/7018580/mpox-vaccines-africa-distribution/) Mounting an urgent mpox vaccination campaign in Africa is crucial, write Gavin Yamey, Marco Schäferh... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 9, 2024 ### [How to Stop Market-Driven Epidemics](https://time.com/7009472/market-driven-epidemics/) So-called "market-driven epidemics" underlie urgent health crises, write Jonathan Quick, Gavin Yamey... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 28, 2023 ### [How Wellness Conspiracy Theories Spread](https://time.com/6340206/wellness-conspiracy-theories-pushed-by-left-and-right/) Wellness influencers and right-wing anti-science activists are spreading conspiracy theories in purs... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 22, 2023 ### [Robert F Kennedy Jr. Is Dead Wrong About Vaccines](https://time.com/6289037/robert-f-kennedy-jr-wrong-about-vaccines/) There is no point in debating RFK Jr. on vaccines. He's wrong and has been proven so many times befo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 16, 2023 ### [Why Americans Are Dying So Young](https://time.com/6279956/americans-dying-young/) One in 25 American five-year olds will not reach their 40th birthday. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 23, 2023 ### [Presidential Election Will Be a Battle Over Pandemic Memory](https://time.com/6264942/political-battle-over-pandemic-memory/) The 2024 political campaign will be about how we remember the pandemic [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 8, 2023 ### [We Still Don’t Know What Works Best to Slow the Spread Of COVID-19](https://time.com/6252107/we-dont-know-what-works-best-slow-spread-covid-19/) Because of a lack of research, we still can’t answer important questions about what reduced the spre... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 14, 2022 ### [Why Masks Still Matter](https://time.com/6232830/why-masks-still-matter-covid-19/) Masks work against not only COVID-19 but also the flu, RSV, and other respiratory viruses. We should... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 19, 2022 ### [Biden Is Wrong, the COVID-19 Pandemic Isn't Over](https://time.com/6214853/biden-wrong-covid-19-pandemic-isnt-over/) Biden is wrong to declare the COVID-19 pandemic over. We're heading in the right direction but the d... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 9, 2022 ### [With Innovation, We Can Keep Reducing the Toll of COVID-19](https://time.com/6204470/innovation-covid-19/) The current levels of illness, deaths, and long COVID-19 warrant more aggressive action. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 15, 2022 ### [The Omicron Wave Is Receding But the Pandemic Is Far From Over](https://time.com/6148270/covid-19-pandemic-far-from-over/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"\_\_typename":"Seo","meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection","edges":\[\]},"twitter\_card":null} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/gavin-yamey/","name":"Gavin Yamey"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/gavin-yamey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/gavin-yamey/"},"name":"Gavin Yamey","jobTitle":"Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University","description":"Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health.","url":"https://time.com/author/gavin-yamey/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```