Global Health

Airplane in Sunset

Before You Leave for Overseas, Do These 5 Things

Marco Alarcon, DDS, MS, conducts an oral examination in Peru's impoverished Claverito settlement.

Claverito: Oral Health in the Peruvian Amazon

Getting Local With Clinical Research Capacity

A nurse working with the WHO shows a bottle containing Ebola vaccine in Mbandaka, May 21, 2018.

Ebola in DRC: The Next Few Weeks Are Critical

Clade X: A Mock, Yet Entirely Plausible, Pandemic

The Global Fund’s Peter Sands speaking at a #WHA71 side event in Geneva on May 22, 2018.

The Local Path to Global Health Security

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting with health representatives to discuss a range of global health issues, on May 21, 2018 in Geneva

Tedros Makes His Case for a Transformed WHO

Audience members peruse a new WHO report on NCDs at its May 20 release in Geneva. (Image: Courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies)

WHO’s Different Calculus on NCDs: Saving Lives… and Money

A health worker at Bikoro Hospital, DRC readies to confront Ebola. (Image: ©UNICEF/UN0209049/Naftalin)

DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Not An International Emergency—Yet, Says WHO

The Palais des Nations: The main UN building in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6, 2012.

8 Things to Watch at This Year’s World Health Assembly—#WHA71

Céline Mabot Yobo collects a drop of blood from a young girl for immunological analysis.

To Vex the Vectors, Look Beyond Vaccines

Students hold up no smoking signs to support World No Tobacco Day at a primary school in northern China's Hebei province, on May 30, 2016. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Wanted: A Watchdog to STOP Big Tobacco in Its Tracks