Health Systems

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

Jane Mugasha coordinates hemophilia services for the Mount Kenya region.

The Muranga Solution: Extending Hemophilia Care to Rural Kenya

Ethan Miruka, 10, receives blood clotting medicine every 48 hours, a procedure that his mother carries out in their family home. It allows him to carry on a normal life.

Hemophilia’s Crippling Cost

Christy Turlington Burns (center) at the Bloomberg American Health Summit with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (left) and J. Nadine Garcia, executive vice president and COO of Trust for America’s Health.

To Christy Turlington Burns, Every Mother Counts

Police and firefighters following an ambulance after Chicago Police officer Samuel Jimenez was killed.

Bloomberg American Health Summit 2018

A lab technican works with pathogen samples as part of research into dangerous animal pathogens in the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative Lab in Yaounde, Cameroon, July 28, 2011.

Better Primary Health Care? Get Better Data

Children play outside the Elder's Qammaq in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The Heavy Toll of Empty Calories: Nutrition as a Focus for Inuit Health

Surgeons are at work during restorative surgery on a survivor of female genital mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017.

Gender Equity Key to Providing Patients with Best Possible Surgical Care