Global Health

Operating tools are seen as pediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi performs a heart operation on 9-month-old Syrian refugee Amena al-Helou at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 2016.

Do We Have a Right to Surgery? The Case for Access to All

Former CDC director Bill Foege recounts a life in public health in his new book, “The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor.” (Image: Courtesy)

Politicians, Philosophy and Other Leadership Challenges: A Q&A with Bill Foege

Graphic composition of a compass over sky

Global Health Leadership Series

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus washes his hands before visiting an Ebola treatment center in Itipo on June 11, 2018.

What Motivates Tedros: Part 2 of a Q&A with WHO’s Director-General

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has sought to transform WHO to maximize its impact. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Inside the Mind of Tedros: A Q&A with WHO’s Director-General

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

How Cape Town Defeated Day Zero—for Now

A general view of the participants in 2015’s "Interns with a Mission,” an initiative to enable dialogue between United Nations interns, staff, and diplomats based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Interns: Future Leaders—Not Free Labor

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’

IFMSA students gathered in Montréal for an always-lively general assembly session.

Medical Students Primed to Lead

An MSF medical worker checking protective clothing in a mirror at an MSF facility in Kailahun, at the epicentre of the world's worst Ebola outbreak, in August 2014.

Global Health Leadership: The Urgent Need

School girls at an HPV vaccination campaign event in Vietnam. © 2007 Amynah Janmohamed,

Safeguard a Vaccine Program with a Well-Planned Rollout

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

Unsafe Generation: Medical Students in Conflict Zones