Health Systems

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

A technician places a beaker into a hatch inside the Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines Ltd. laboratory facility in Cape Town, South Africa, July 12, 2021; the WHO announced it will establish its first-ever mRNA technology transfer hub in Cape Town in an agreement with Afrigen and the Biovac Institute. Photographer: Image: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Envisioning a New Public Health Order in Africa

Cubicles housing patients on the arena floor inside a temporary Covid-19 hospital at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 17, 2020. Image: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty

‘Dangerously Unprepared’: New Report Faults Countries’ Pandemic Readiness… Again

David Carlisle, James E.K. Hildreth, and Michelle Spencer discussing health disparities at the virtual Bloomberg American Health Summit, Nov. 10, 2021.

Public Health Pulls Lessons from Pandemic Discord and Disparities

Volunteer paramedics provide antibiotic treatment to a COVID-19 patient in Caracas, Venezuela. August 20, 2021. Image: Pedro Ramses Mattey/Anadolu Agency/Getty

A Second, Silent Pandemic: Antibiotic Resistance