Global Public Health
From effective outbreak control to promising new research, a few developments that suggest key parts of the global health system are still functioning well, even under strain.
The founder of Saving Mothers in New York shares a story that highlights the shared experiences of giving birth, no matter where on Earth you live, but also the wide discrepancies in available birth care.
Merging organizations that have overlapping mandates could do more than cut costs. 'One institution with a broader mandate could improve efficiency and be better at building health systems,' one expert said.
I had lived through the transformation of HIV in the United States — from a death sentence to a manageable chronic illness. Now, I had the privilege of witnessing that transformation again, on a massive scale.
A UN-WHO scientific risk assessment is launched as U.S. regulators struggle to find the source of ByHeart botulism contamination.
Before eradication, screwworm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in financial losses each year in the U.S. Ranchers spent enormous time and money on treatment and prevention in cattle.
The global nonprofit organization redistributes medical equipment and supplies to clinics serving vulnerable people. It's finding a growing need for its work in the U.S.
Other gaps in protection against the highly contagious disease include access to hard-to-reach clinics and ‘social determinants of vaccination.’
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?