Health Systems

The UN Palais des Nations, site of the World Health Assembly. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

The 2019 World Health Assembly: What Happened at #WHA72

“We all got pretty darn comfortable with the success story of global health,” says author Laurie Garrett. Image: Courtesy

Public Health’s Precarious Nature

A packed agenda of policy and budget discussions await delegates to this year’s World Health Assembly. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty, 2012

7 Things to Watch at the 2019 World Health Assembly—#WHA72

Will Congress again reject proposed Trump administration cuts to US global health budgets? (Image: Crglenn / Wikimedia Commons, 2014)

5 Things to Know About US Global Health Funding for FY 2020

Journalists listening to the opening session of the Association of Health Care Journalists 2019 annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland on May 2, 2019. Image by Larry Canner.

This One's for the Storytellers

A community health worker in rural Ethiopia tests a boy for malaria. © 2007 Bonnie Gillespie, Courtesy of Photoshare

Community Health Workers and Volunteers: The Most Effective Path to UHC

Indian TB patient Sonu Verma, 25, poses with his chest x-ray in Sonipat, March 3, 2016. Image: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty

A Roadmap for Ending the Moral Catastrophe of TB

Winners of the Untold Global Health Stories of 2019 Announced!

Patty Garcia, Peru's former Minister of Health, decries the scourge of corruption during a CUGH keynote on March 8, 2019. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

The Word Everyone in Global Health Is Afraid to Say: Corruption

James Fitzgibbons explores rural Bolivia on a global health education program that promotes cross-cultural learning at the community level. Image courtesy of Child Family Health International

6 Tips for Students Against Ethically Iffy Global Health Field Placements

A woman's left foot is checked for mycetoma by DNDi staff in Sudan; her right leg was infected with mycetoma and had to be amputated. Image by Neil Brandvold/DNDi

Fighting off the Flesh Eater: Controlling Mycetoma in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journalist Hannah McNeish documented hemophilia's devastation and hope in Kenya. Image: Courtesy

More Than a Medical Story: A Q&A with Hannah McNeish