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Loyce Pace, a Biden COVID-19 advisory board member, speaking on a January 14, 2021 webcast.

To Get Ahead of COVID-19, the Biden Team Will Follow the Science

A worker displays syringes at the Hindustan Syringes factory in Faridabad as India ramped up production ahead of a coronavirus vaccine rollout. September 2, 2020 Image: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty

What It Means When Billions of People Must Wait Years for a COVID Vaccine

A person walks by a sign that reads "One small ask, please wear a mask." New York City, May 27, 2020. Image: Rob Kim/Getty

We Need to Focus on the Science of Human Behavior to End COVID Pandemic

A Xilotepec cemetery worker in Mexico City prepares to receive corpses of COVID-19 victims. May 8, 2020. Image: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty

Top Global Health Moments of 2020

A technician handles samples from truck drivers testing for COVID-19 at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, May 14, 2020. Image: Brian Ongoro/AFP/Getty

New Dashboard Aims to Democratize COVID-19 Data

A health worker takes a blood sample from an XDR-TB patient at Kitgum Hospital in northern Uganda Image: Diana Tumuhairwe, Management Sciences for Health

A 2-Front Battle: COVID-19 Must Reinvigorate the Fight Against TB

Screenshot of BAHI virtual summit intro

Bloomberg American Health Summit 2020: America’s Reckoning with Public Health

A COVID-19 patient on oxygen at the Andohatapenaka University Hospital in Antananarivo, Madagascar on July 20, 2020. Image: Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Medical Oxygen: Key to Fighting COVID-19—and the Next Respiratory Pandemic

Loyce Pace at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, May 22, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

Loyce Pace’s Path to the Biden-Harris Transition Team

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML

COVID-19 Expert Reality Check

COVID-19 made the future even more uncertain for many vulnerable undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, including this family who arrived from South America 6 years ago, photographed Mar. 24, 2020 in East Boston

COVID-19’s Impact on Undocumented Immigrants in Western Massachusetts

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job