Health Systems

Representatives from 194 member states gather for the opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 20, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

The World Health Assembly: What It Does, Why It Matters

Medyka border crossing, Poland.

What Makes Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis So Different

A health worker at the N’djili vaccinodrome in Kinshasa administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a community member on April 11, 2022. Image: JNK Culture

Africa’s vaccination effort is not losing steam. It is becoming more strategic.

In his first months on the job, Dr. Gawande traveled to Nigeria where USAID is working with local partners to accelerate COVID vaccination rates and ensure distribution of medications for neglected tropical diseases, as well as partnering with Gavi on routine childhood immunizations.

5 Global Health Takeaways from Atul Gawande

A statue of blindfolded Lady Justice holding scales in Brussels, May 12, 2019. Image: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty

‘Shame on us’: Global Health Governance’s Shameful Lack of Diversity

Russian drug police burn bags of Methadone on December 23, 2014 in Simferopol, Crimea—a possible approach in newly occupied areas in Ukraine. Image: Yuriy Lashov/AFP via Getty Images

No Safe Place: Substance Use Therapy in Wartorn Ukraine

sther Sambiri, left, stands with fellow vaccine advocates outside the Nyanga, Zimbabwe, district government office on Dec. 16, 2021. Image: Farai Mutsaka

Infectious Diseases

In Zimbabwe, COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust Stokes HPV Vaccination Fears

Health workers talk to residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dangerous Myth: ‘We’ve Got All the COVID-19 Tools We Need’

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccination certificate in Bimbo, Central African Republic, on November 15, 2021. Image: Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty

It’s Time to Take Coronavirus in Africa Seriously

Sunrise in the Transkei region in Eastern Cape Province, one of the poorest and most rural of South Africa’s 9 provinces.

Noncommunicable Diseases

Strapped for Time and Resources: Fighting Stroke in Rural South Africa

Eliot Rojas, his wife, and Romina in the hospital before she had her C-Section. Image Courtesy of Eliot Rojas.

Maternal Health

Doctors Push C-Sections in Chile, but Women Are Pushing Back

Danilea Villegas and her children. Image: Paige Sutherland

Maternal Health

Profit over Patients: C-Sections in Chile Reach Alarming High