Global Health

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

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

Doctor Yulismar (R) checks the condition of a tuberculosis patient at the Indonesian Association Against Tuberculosis in Jakarta, March 24, 2016. Jefri Tarigan /Anadolu Agency/Getty

Infectious Diseases

Ending TB Will Cost Billions—Not Ending it Will Cost Trillions

Mayor Geoffrey Makhubo launched a handwashing campaign to counter the spread of COVID-19 at the Mangolongolo Informal Settlement, April 22, 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Public Trust Can Make or Break Government Response to Public Health Crisis

An Iraqi youth stands on the bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the Nahr Bin Omar village as flare stacks burn in the oil field across the water in Iraq's southern Basra governorate. December 5, 2021.

Enter the Untold Global Health Stories of 2023 Contest