Global Public Health

Trenton Daniel's reporting career has taken him from South Florida, to Haiti, to New York City. Here's what he's learned and how he'll cover public health for New Yorkers.

Marco Rubio praises the ‘America First’ agreement as a new approach. How old challenges play out remains to be seen.

The British Consul General to the Southeast U.S., based in Atlanta, shares a story from her global health work in the Balkans, where a program to install doors on toilets in schools grew into other projects that became a lifeline for women.

Professor Anant Madabhushi’s work covers AI options for detecting and treating a dizzying range of diseases, from cancer to HIV to cardiovascular disease, in countries from China to Tanzania to Brazil.

With large donor countries – especially the U.S. – pulling back, a global development think tank has a new idea for funding programs that fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

The heart of the guidance is not a list of shiny new, expensive programs. Instead, it is a dramatically unsexy push to make health systems more flexible and more anticipatory.

Eli Lilly is building a new plant in the Netherlands to produce a pill form of its popular Mounjaro injection. About two-thirds of the world’s 1 billion obese adults live outside the developed world. Will they be able to get the medicine?

A DeKalb Department of Health official recalls an 'aha' moment in his previous global health work that transformed his perspective on the impact of seemingly small acts of service.

Cases are on the rise, with a new, faster-spreading strain turning up in several countries – and California. Here’s the long-term outlook.

Trump’s budget bill slashes nearly 20% from SNAP through 2034. Separate from any temporary SNAP stoppages due to the federal shutdown, the law cuts off access for refugees and other immigrant groups who are in the country lawfully.

Also in the Global Health Checkup: Bird flu in Europe, Fiji free of trachoma, Rift Valley Fever in Senegal, and what happens when malaria aid is cut.

The discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., explored coverage of the outbreak's origin: Was it caused by an accident at a lab in Wuhan, China? Or an infected animal at a Wuhan market or in the wild?

Warning by European health agency about mpox strain notes locally spread cases in Spain, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, and California.

Public health team’s investigation suggests Tacoma-area woman is state’s first known locally acquired malaria infection.

Also in the Global Health Checkup: Severe hunger, biodiversity loss, the global funding gap, and a tuberculosis comeback.

For the leaders of CARE, The Carter Center, The Task Force on Global Health, the CDC, and the CDC Foundation, the abrupt cuts have brought layoffs and challenges to fulfilling their mission.

New research, suspected cases in N.J., Washington this year raise concerns about local malaria infections.

Efforts to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo may show that the WHO and Red Cross can rally new sources of emergency aid in absence of U.S. But is that a long-term solution?

The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Here's what to know.

Also in the Global Health Checkup: Food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.