Global Health

Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the mayor of Accra, Ghana, at a Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety partner meeting in New York on October 10, 2018.

Driving Change and Saving Lives

Steam and exhaust rise from a power plant on a cold winter day, in Oberhausen, Germany, January 2017.

Climate and Health: The Heart of the Health Policy Nexus

Outside the UN General Assembly Hall where the High-level meeting on tuberculosis was held on September 26, 2018 .

High-level Hopes to End TB

Members of the NCDFREE youth

We’re the Bold, Innovative NCD Solution You’re Looking For

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’