Disasters

Steam and exhaust rise from a power plant on a cold winter day, in Oberhausen, Germany, January 2017.

Climate and Health: The Heart of the Health Policy Nexus

David Persse and Josh Sharfstein share leadership lessons in disasters at the GHN Live event in Houston. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

Global Health NOW Live: What Disasters Can Teach You

Cape Town residents fill their water jugs at the Highlands Spring in February 2018.

How Cape Town Defeated Day Zero—for Now

The Islamic University of Gaza after it was bombed in August 2014.

Unsafe Generation: Medical Students in Conflict Zones

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting with health representatives to discuss a range of global health issues, on May 21, 2018 in Geneva

Tedros Makes His Case for a Transformed WHO

Crowded cows

Factory Farms Feed 3 Top Health Threats

Syrian girls wash clothes outside their tent in the displaced persons camp in Atmeh, Syria in 2013.

Learn from the Pros: Public Health in Humanitarian Crises

A young refugee in front of hundreds of tents, during sunrise in a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece in March 2016.

How to Fix the Broken Humanitarian System: A Q&A with Paul Spiegel

Impunity Must End-Report Cover

Ending Impunity for Attacks on Health Care: Q&A with Leonard S. Rubenstein

Ambulance depot near the Emergency Response Centre, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Time to Shake Up Emergency Response

Exclusive Commentary: Post-Katrina, the Plague of Disaster Capitalism