Michelle Nunn

2 weeks ago | ssir.org | Chana Schoenberger |Sarah Murray |Deepti Doshi |Michelle Nunn

Civic Engagement Democratic Giving Wealth Shared empowers a collective of people to determine grantmaking decisions. Leadership President Carter’s Inspiring Model of Civic Leadership By 2 His post-presidency demonstrated a special combination of bold aspiration coupled with strategic, detailed, and sustained execution.

Jan 8, 2025 | ssir.org | Michelle Nunn

President Jimmy Carter reached the highest pinnacle of political leadership, but he arguably did more good for more people during his encore career in the nonprofit sector—and that may be his most enduring legacy.

Sep 7, 2024 | theprint.in | Michelle Nunn

In Diffa, one of the poorest regions of Niger, climate change has led to more frequent droughts and floods that have created severe food insecurity and malnutrition. But despite entrenched gender inequality, communities in Diffa are seeing what happens when women lead and power resilient climate adaptation. Women small-scale farmers have stepped up and joined forces to change the landscape of possibility.

Jun 29, 2024 | trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com | Guilherme Pessoa-Amorim |Raphael Goldacre |Charles Crichton |Will Stevens |Michelle Nunn |Richard Welsh | +13 more

Randomised trials are essential to reliably assess medical interventions. Nevertheless, interpretation of such studies, particularly when considering absolute effects, is enhanced by understanding how the trial population may differ from the populations it aims to represent. We compared baseline characteristics and mortality of RECOVERY participants recruited in England (n = 38,510) with a reference population hospitalised with COVID-19 in England (n = 346,271) from March 2020 to November 2021. We used linked hospitalisation and mortality data for both cohorts to extract demographics, comorbidity/frailty scores, and crude and age- and sex-adjusted 28-day all-cause mortality. Demographics of RECOVERY participants were broadly similar to the reference population, but RECOVERY participants were younger (mean age [standard deviation]: RECOVERY 62.6 [15.3] vs reference 65.7 [18.5] years) and less frequently female (37% vs 45%). Comorbidity and frailty scores were lower in RECOVERY, but differences were attenuated after age stratification. Age- and sex-adjusted 28-day mortality declined over time but was similar between cohorts across the study period (RECOVERY 23.7% [95% confidence interval: 23.3–24.1%]; vs reference 24.8% [24.6–25.0%]), except during the first pandemic wave in the UK (March–May 2020) when adjusted mortality was lower in RECOVERY. Adjusted 28-day mortality in RECOVERY was similar to a nationwide reference population of patients admitted with COVID-19 in England during the same period but varied substantially over time in both cohorts. Therefore, the absolute effect estimates from RECOVERY were broadly applicable to the target population at the time but should be interpreted in the light of current mortality estimates. ISRCTN50189673- Feb. 04, 2020, NCT04381936- May 11, 2020.

Jun 28, 2024 | weforum.org | Michelle Nunn

Women in war and conflict zones often have the most knowledge about how best to help their communities. Image: ©Yousef Ruzzi/CAREWomen in war zones are often disproportionately affected by conflict, but research shows they also play a key role in helping others in their communities. Despite often having a central role in relief efforts, women are typically not included in decision-making around humanitarian aid efforts and conflict resolution.