Global Health

Outside the Mark Sankalé Center for diabetes in Dakar, Senegal. Image Courtesy of Amy Nye.

Diabetes on the Rise in Senegal

A paramedical teacher in Kolkata, India instructs students on how to draw blood. © 2015 Dipayan Bhar, Courtesy of Photoshare

Humility: A Global Health Professional’s Most Important Attribute

Traffic jam in downtown Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 2012. Image: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty

When You Live Close to the Hospital, But Can’t Reach It in Time

A nurse pours water from a pitcher to help the surgeon scrub for a cesarean section at St. Therese Hospital in Central Plateau, Haiti. © 2014 C. Hanna-Truscott/Midwives for Haiti, Courtesy of Photoshare

Safe Surgery—and UHC—Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

In the operating theater at Sotouboua hospital in Togo, Africa. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty

Cutting Through the Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

View of Berlin, Germany from the Victory Column, a monument designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War. Image: stocklapse/iStock/Getty

Is Germany Really a New Leader in Global Health?

Stock photo of western volunteer listening to child's heartbeat

10 Fixes for Global Health Consulting Malpractice

Iginia Badillo delivered her child at Huasca Health Center under the care of midwifery interns supported by the FCI program of MSH. Image: Pablo Romo, Courtesy of Management Sciences for Health

Saving Lives at Birth Starts with Quality Care, Everywhere

Izabayo, 13 years old, leaves the boat where he spent the night with 10 other fishermen after another fishing night at Lake Kivu on July 17, 2017. Izabayo has worked with the fishermen since he was 8 years old. Image: Natalia Jidovanu/AFP/Getty

Enter the Untold Global Health Stories of 2020 Contest

Indonesian authorities check body temperatures of airline passengers on May 15, 2019 after a Nigerian man infected with monkeypox was diagnosed in Singapore. (Image: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global Health Security Starts with Countries

Meeting surrounding the kickoff for the HelmVit study on schistosomiasis during pregnancy and its effects on the infants immune system (Prof. da Costa is second from left). Image by Eva Arnold

A Neglected Disease, A Lab Researcher, And Real Life

A nurse carries a container with Malaria vaccine Mosquirix at Ewim Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana, on April 30, 2019. Image: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty

The “4 Ds” that Threaten Middle-Income Countries