Joanne Silberner

Joanne Silberner, an 18-year veteran of NPR's Science Desk, is a freelance reporter focusing on global health and health policy.

Articles by Joanne Silberner

A tour group lies in a row on the decorative rotunda floor in the Nebraska State Capitol, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Who Controls U.S. Public Health—the Feds or the States?

Equipment is seen at the Yale University Lab in New Haven, Connecticut. August 26, 2019. George Etheredge/Bloomberg/Getty.

How Covid Slowed Basic Science

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Decolonizing Global Health: Know Your Organizational Weaknesses

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Decolonizing Global Health: Reform Your NGO

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Decolonizing Global Health: Change the Curriculum

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Decolonizing Global Health: Respect Your Partners

Composite photo of Anton Basenko, Bill Hall, and Kawango Agot

Infectious Diseases

Courageous Voices: Global HIV/AIDS Activists Share their Stories

Anton Basenko attending the UN General Assembly High-level Meeting on Tuberculosis, 2018

Replacing Hate with Harm Reduction

Bill Hall photographed in his home in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 5, 2015. Image: by Robert Hood/Fred Hutch News Service

Speaking Out

Dr. Kawango Agot, Kenya

Infectious Diseases

Working Close to Home to Prevent HIV

A nurse monitors a COVID-19 patient in the ICU of Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California on May 21, 2020. Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Depression, Pain, Breathing Problems—and That’s After Surviving COVID-19

A maternity matron holds 2 baby girls, the first children conceived through IVF in Kenya, May 2006. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty

Infertility as a Neglected Disease