Global Health

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?

A health surveillance assistant talks to a mother at a malaria vaccine screening table in Lilongwe, Malawi, April 23, 2019.

The Responsive Primary Health Care Path to UHC

An obstetric team performs a caesarean section delivery at the RSIA Tambak maternity clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 10, 2020.

We Cannot Tackle Maternal Mortality Without Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Care

Closeup of a surgeon in green scrubs and her assistants operating on a patient. Universal Images Group Getty

Representing Global Surgery and Sometimes, All of Africa

A photograph of the World Health Assembly.

The 2023 World Health Assembly: A New Playbook for Health Emergencies?

A side view of WHO headquarters on a cloudy day in 2019 in Geneva.

The 2023 World Health Assembly: A New Financial Lifeline for WHO?

Illustration of an open book with letters flying out of its pages, over he backdrop of science molecules.

“Living Science” Stories

Story Lab cofounders Jonathan Adler and Gillian Epstein. Illustration: Hitomi Kuromoto

Science Needs Storytelling: A Q&A with the Story Lab Team

The dome of the US Capitol visible through pink and white cherry blossom branches against a blue sky in Washington, DC, on March 27, 2023.

CUGH 2023: In-Person and In DC

Akol Anna Grace, an assistant nursing officer of Kopoth Health Centre, poses between houses during a home visit in Kopoth, Karamoja region, Uganda, on May 25, 2022. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty

Breaking the ‘XX Paradox'

An ambulance drives through Laatzen, Germany in heavy snow during a surge in COVID-19 cases on January 31, 2022.

A Smarter, Better Fight in the Next Pandemic

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

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