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Dan Klotz

Senior Writer, Global

Dan Klotz is a veteran writer and advocate with more than 25 years of experience leveraging publicity to help propel public policy campaigns. He has shaped and placed opinion pieces that have appeared throughout the world’s media, in outlets including the New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Guardian, CNN.com and AlJazeera.com.

His career has spanned a wide range of policy issues, including finding new ways to treat and prevent tuberculosis, malaria and other neglected diseases; efforts to halt tropical deforestation; legal recognition for the rights of Indigenous communities in the U.S. and around the world; tobacco control policies, including smoke-free workplaces; the importance of federally funded agricultural research; equitable and pedestrian-friendly urban development; international shark conservation; the clean-up of toxic waste sites; conservation of wild areas on land and in the ocean; and the domestic and global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A native New Yorker, Dan received a B.A. in English from Cornell University. He is a former member of the board of directors of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and wrote for seven years for the National Geographics Voices blog. His essays have also been published by The Washington Post and other outlets.

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Not Everyone Can Take Their Health Insurance Out for a Test Drive — and Survive

We’re at a point in the political discourse where the focus is on getting through the end of the pandemic and how to generate economic recovery while handling the worsening impacts of climate change. Universal health care, Medicare for all, whatever your tagline is for fixing the health coverage gaps—it’s not a political priority. That needs to change.

For Tuberculosis in 2020, the Madness Extended Well Past March

For many people in the U.S., there is a desire to return to “normal,” to return to college basketball games and its annual “March Madness.” But in the more impoverished parts of the world, returning to normal includes the perils of TB. If we can figure out the game plan for beating the COVID-19 pandemic in just over a year, it is past time to flex our scientific muscles and vanquish TB.

Flooded by Problems, Farmers Need a Raft of Solutions

This spring, every now and then a photo or two of flooded farm operations in the midwestern US has caught the attention of the media and general public. But what those pictures represent hasn’t really been captured.

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Not Everyone Can Take Their Health Insurance Out for a Test Drive — and Survive

For Tuberculosis in 2020, the Madness Extended Well Past March

Flooded by Problems, Farmers Need a Raft of Solutions