Tag Archive for: Covid-19

What mask hesitancy in the U.S. reveals about the need for a true hygiene discipline

To improve public health outcomes, we need to invest in hygiene research and in those who are working to solve hygiene-related issues.

Why we all need to re-learn the art of hand washing

This article in the Telegraph cites research by RGHI fellow Ian Ross and others that promoting handwashing with soap could reduce acute respiratory infection morbidity, such as Covid deaths, by 17 percent.

Does the Cochrane Review put the mask debate to bed? Or is it bad science?

Response to Cochrane Report 2022 Update on Physical interventions…

Following Covid, where do we stand with hygiene?

Over the past two years, globally the world’s understanding…

Individual action required to safeguard the NHS

The NHS is buckling under the weight of increasing COVID-19…

The BA.2 subvariant is a reminder that hygiene can’t fall by the wayside

March, 2022 – As cases of what the World Health Organization calls the…

Call for no-harm hygiene interventions not to be abandoned amid the removal of COVID-19 restrictions

As Prime Minister Boris Johnson removes all COVID-19 restrictions…

First cohort of RGHI fellows will help plug significant gaps in hygiene research

New Jersey, (February 17, 2022) – The Reckitt Global…

A life-course approach to hygiene: understanding burden and behavioural changes

Economist intelligence unit report calls for more diverse hygiene…