COVID-19

Officials deposit a bat into a plastic bag after catching it, in Kozhikode, India, on September 7, 2021.

Outbreak Preparedness for All

A statue of a mother holding her child with her hand over her face, against a cloudy grey sky.

Bhopal: A Tale of Two Tragedies

Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Hotez on Patent-Free Vaccines—and Texas, Tito’s, and Twitter

Mohammad Hanif washes recyclable materials pulled from the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi, on October 5, 2022. Image by Cheena Kapoor

Environmental Health

India’s Mountains of Biomedical Waste

Students participate in a rural vaccination drive at a school in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on March 9, 2022. Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Africa’s New Approach to Public Health

Doctor Yulismar (R) checks the condition of a tuberculosis patient at the Indonesian Association Against Tuberculosis in Jakarta, March 24, 2016. Jefri Tarigan /Anadolu Agency/Getty

Infectious Diseases

Ending TB Will Cost Billions—Not Ending it Will Cost Trillions

Anopheles dirus; main vector in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Infectious Diseases

Fighting the ‘Million-Murdering’ Mosquito: Lessons from the Pandemic

Javed Ahmed Padroo displays a photo of his wife, Ruqiya Javed, on his cellphone. Anantnag, Kashmir, April 21.

Maternal Health

In Kashmir, Pregnant Women Were Denied Care over COVID-19 Fears

Zahoor Ahmed Bhat stands outside his house in the Anantnag district of South Kashmir with the stretcher that his wife, Shakeela AkhterAkhter died on before she could get to an emergency maternal health care center. Image by Aliya Bashir.

Maternal Health

In Kashmir, Coronavirus Pushed Already-Broken Maternal Health over the Brink

A health worker at the N’djili vaccinodrome in Kinshasa administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a community member on April 11, 2022. Image: JNK Culture

Africa’s vaccination effort is not losing steam. It is becoming more strategic.

sther Sambiri, left, stands with fellow vaccine advocates outside the Nyanga, Zimbabwe, district government office on Dec. 16, 2021. Image: Farai Mutsaka

Infectious Diseases

In Zimbabwe, COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust Stokes HPV Vaccination Fears

Edith Bracho-Sanchez interviews a source in Tijuana, Mexico in 2019. Image: CourtesyEdith Bracho-Sanchez interviews a source in Tijuana, Mexico in 2019. Image: CourtesyEdith Bracho-Sanchez interviews a source in Tijuana, Mexico in 2019.

Another Way to Fight Disease: Media Training