Health Systems

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

The Partners In Health palliative care team conducts a home visit with a patient in Neno District, Malawi.

A World in Agony: The Global Need for Pain Treatment