COVER STORY This issue: Change Agent. Out of tens of thousands of Facebook employees, why was Frances Haugen the one to come forward? Frances Haugen is in the back of a Paris taxi, waving a piece of sushi in the air. The cab is on the way to a Hilton hotel, where this November afternoon she is due to meet with the French digital economy minister. The Eiffel Tower appears briefly through the window, piercing a late-fall haze. Haugen is wolfing down lunch on the go, while recalling an episode from her childhood. The teacher of her gifted and talented class used to play a game where she would read to the other children the first letter of a word…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.
LGBTQ Koreans are fighting for an end to discrimination against their community. Receiving even the most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in the capital, Seoul. Because official documents do not reflect the fact that Park is transgender, her identity is questioned at every turn. To apply for a credit card “took a very long time,” says Park, who is a coordinator at Dding Dong, the only LGBTQ youth crisis support center in South Korea. “They didn’t think I was me. I remember [the delivery person] came with my card, then said they’d come back tomorrow. So the next day, I smiled and showed my medical records proving I’m taking hormones”…
Dr. Raj Panjabi on preparing for the next pandemic. On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization announced it was recommending a malaria vaccine, the first ever such shot for the mosquito-borne infectious disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. It’s a huge development in the effort to put an end to the oldest pandemic still stalking the planet. But its limitations are real, and offer a view into what we need to do to prepare for the next global disease. Medical breakthroughs on their own can’t defeat malaria—vaccines, tests and treatments don’t deliver themselves. Health workers do. Indeed, Thailand cut its malaria cases by 90% by training a million community health workers over the…
