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Youth are front and center at #WD2019 (featured here at a pre-conference side event). Image Courtesy of Women Deliver

"Here to Push Back Against the Pushback"

An aerial view of Accra, Ghana’s Lapaz intersection prior to a safety redesign. (Photo: Accra Metropolitan Assembly)

The Road’s Toll: How to Reduce 1.35 Million Traffic Deaths

Attendees at a Women Deliver Power Stage event

Women Deliver 2019: Power, Progress and Change

Loyce Pace, Global Health Council executive director, at #WHA72 in Geneva. (Image: BWS)

A View Inside the Whirlwind: Loyce Pace on #WHA72

An Indian snake catcher—whose skills are crucial for the production of anti-venom—displays the fangs of a Russell’s Viper at a venom extraction center in Chennai on November 11,2016.

Time to Act: WHO’s New Snakebite Strategy

A May 21 #WHA72 side event focused on migration and health. (Image: BWS)

Health on the Move

#WHA72 committee members discuss polio eradication and plans for a polio-free world on May 23, 2019. (Image: BWS)

Polio: Waiting for the Final Blow

Protesters demonstrating in Rome, Italy on July 28, 2017 as Italy’s lawmakers voted to make vaccinations mandatory for children at school registration. Image: Simona Granati/Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Booster Shot for Vaccines

Local police on a May 18 patrol in Butembo, epicenter of the Ebola crisis in DRC and site of attacks on health facilities. (Image: JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images)

Bullets and Ebola: The Latest Update from DRC

Joshua Blumenfeld (left) and Jamie Drummond at Sunday’s NCD communications event moderated by Nejra Cehic. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

NCD Experts, Change the Name! And Other Valuable Advice

Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton gave a passionate and personal address at #WHA72’s opening this morning. Image: Brian W. Simpson

A Surprise Beginning for #WHA72

The UN Palais des Nations, site of the World Health Assembly. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

The 2019 World Health Assembly: What Happened at #WHA72