As this issue goes to press, we mark a year that perhaps started with a new vigor, ambitious and resolute in some way to do better—maybe to write more, exercise more, love more, to improve self or world in some manner. In the span of a few months, COVID-19 eclipsed all preconceptions, exacting an unprecedented global toll and challenging our collective capacity to understand and respond. Distinct, and yet set amidst an increasing number and severity of disasters of nature and conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve in ways not yet clear. It has galvanized research efforts, not only in medicine and health sciences, but across the social sciences and humanities.

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在此问题付印之时，我们标志着一年也许是以新的活力，雄心勃勃和坚决的态度开始的，以便以更好的方式做得更好–也许要写作，多锻炼，多爱，以某种方式改善自己或世界。在过去的几个月中，COVID-19掩盖了所有先入之见，给全球造成了前所未有的损失，并挑战了我们理解和应对的集体能力。COVID-19大流行病与众不同，但在自然灾害和冲突灾难的数量和严重性不断增加的情况下，它仍以未知的方式继续发展。它不仅在医学和健康科学领域，而且在整个社会科学和人文科学领域都进行了积极的研究。