Health Systems

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

David Persse and Josh Sharfstein share leadership lessons in disasters at the GHN Live event in Houston. (Image: Brian W. Simpson)

Global Health NOW Live: What Disasters Can Teach You

Operating tools are seen as pediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi performs a heart operation on 9-month-old Syrian refugee Amena al-Helou at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 2016.

Do We Have a Right to Surgery? The Case for Access to All

Former CDC director Bill Foege recounts a life in public health in his new book, “The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor.” (Image: Courtesy)

Politicians, Philosophy and Other Leadership Challenges: A Q&A with Bill Foege

Physician-advocate Rita Thapa shares a booklet on cardiovascular disease risk factors with friends at a secondary school in Dang, Nepal on August 24, 2018. (Image courtesy)

The Lessons of Alma-Ata

Graphic composition of a compass over sky

Global Health Leadership Series

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus washes his hands before visiting an Ebola treatment center in Itipo on June 11, 2018.

What Motivates Tedros: Part 2 of a Q&A with WHO’s Director-General

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has sought to transform WHO to maximize its impact. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Inside the Mind of Tedros: A Q&A with WHO’s Director-General

IFMSA students gathered in Montréal for an always-lively general assembly session.

Medical Students Primed to Lead

The Islamic University of Gaza after it was bombed in August 2014.

Unsafe Generation: Medical Students in Conflict Zones

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting with health representatives to discuss a range of global health issues, on May 21, 2018 in Geneva

Tedros Makes His Case for a Transformed WHO

The Palais des Nations: The main UN building in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6, 2012.

8 Things to Watch at This Year’s World Health Assembly—#WHA71