Global Health

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Bloomberg American Health Summit 2020: America’s Reckoning with Public Health

A COVID-19 patient on oxygen at the Andohatapenaka University Hospital in Antananarivo, Madagascar on July 20, 2020. Image: Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Medical Oxygen: Key to Fighting COVID-19—and the Next Respiratory Pandemic

Cookies with labels stating their high content in sugar, calories and saturated fat in Santiago, Chile, on June 20, 2016. Image: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty

Food Labels Work, So Why Aren’t More Governments Using Them?

Loyce Pace at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, May 22, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

Loyce Pace’s Path to the Biden-Harris Transition Team

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML

COVID-19 Expert Reality Check

COVID-19 made the future even more uncertain for many vulnerable undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, including this family who arrived from South America 6 years ago, photographed Mar. 24, 2020 in East Boston

COVID-19’s Impact on Undocumented Immigrants in Western Massachusetts

Mosquito control volunteers in Senegal visit members of their community to count sleeping places for distribution of mosquito nets. Courtesy, President's Malaria Initiative, 2012. Image: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

It’s Time for African Youth to Advance the Fight against Malaria

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Humanitarian supplies wait at the Tienditas International Bridge in the border city of Cucuta, Colombia on February 21, 2019. Image: Lokman Ilhan/Anadolu Agency/Getty

When Our Valuation of Democracy Wavers

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spar in the first presidential debate. Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. Image: Scott Olson/Getty

That Was Bad

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spar in the first presidential debate. Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. Image: Scott Olson/Getty

That Was Bad.

Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care