Disasters

Maintenance employees of the IMSS hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, prep for Hurricane Genevieve on August 19, 2020. Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

‘The Gates of Hell’ Have Opened—Can Health Systems Help Close Them?

Parveen Akhtar sits in front of her storm-battered home in Teligati village on Dec. 29, 2022. Ritwika Mitra

Climate Change Drives Anxiety, Depression in the Sundarbans

Several health care workers wearing face masks and yellow protective suits acknowledge applause outside the Hospital de Barcelona on April 13, 2020 in Barcelona, during a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

Bring on the Big Wins for Global Health in 2023

Internally displaced people use a boat to cross a flooded area at Dadu in Sindh province, Pakistan. October 27, 2022. Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images

Lessons from Pakistan’s Floods

Residents take refuge at a Salinas, Puerto Rico high school on Sept. 19 after Hurricane Fiona slammed the island. Jose Jimenez/Getty Images

No More Bandages: Let’s Rebuild Puerto Rico’s Health System as a Cornerstone of Disaster Preparedness

Medyka border crossing, Poland.

What Makes Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis So Different

A man gives a bag of rice to a crowd of earthquake victims gathered for the distribution of food and water at the "4 Chemins" crossroads in Les Cayes, Haiti on August 20, 2021.

No ‘Silver Lining’: The Media’s Disaster Narrative in Haiti and Beyond

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

Young women model masks worn during America’s Dust Bowl disaster, circa 1935. Image: Bert Garai/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty

COVID-19’s Best Analog Is the 1930s Dust Bowl, Not the 1918 Flu

People take shelter after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, Texas. August 29, 2017. Image: Joe Raedle/Getty

Disaster Relief in the Face of COVID-19

Private sector solution: A dog team delivers antitoxin during Nome, Alaska’s 1925 diphtheria outbreak. Image: Bettmann/Getty

Fragile States Need Private Sector Allies