Health Systems

Blessing Abosede with her son Iyanu. Abiodun Jamiu

Maternal Health

In Nigeria, Hospitals Are Unlawfully Detaining Newborns to Force Payment of Medical Bills

A two-day, mobile medical and dental clinic serve the rural poor in Grundy, Virginia, on October 7.

The Health Poor: A New Class To Which Almost All Of Us Belong

A man wearing a blue vest puts his hands out to receive medicine through a window cut out in a yellow-painted pharmacy.

Call for a New Cadre of Pharmaceutical Professionals to Strengthen LMIC Systems

Employees work on the production line of N95 facemasks at a factory on December 8, 2022 in Xuchang, Henan Province of China. Niu Shupei/VCG via Getty Images

We Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic—But It’s Easier Said Than Done

ASHA Shubhangi Kamble walking through a dirty patch of mud during heavy rainfall to a community member’s house whose child fell sick.

Extreme Weather Makes a Hard Job Harder for India’s Health Workers

Maintenance employees of the IMSS hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, prep for Hurricane Genevieve on August 19, 2020. Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

‘The Gates of Hell’ Have Opened—Can Health Systems Help Close Them?

A health surveillance assistant talks to a mother at a malaria vaccine screening table in Lilongwe, Malawi, April 23, 2019.

The Responsive Primary Health Care Path to UHC

A mother carrying her young child with a health card arrives a rural health center in Brindaban village in Bihar on June 19. Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty

A Blueprint for Inclusive Health Architecture: Insights from India's G20

Maggie Medison, 18, joined PEPFAR’s DREAMS program in Malawi and now is a peer educator, working with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of staying in school and protection against HIV. Nov. 14, 2017.

Learning Our Lessons: What’s Missing from Pandemic Preparedness

Activists hold a banner up before the start of the "Trans Youth Prom" outside of the US Capitol building on May 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty

LGBTQ Youth: Under Attack and Fighting Back

A child looks uncertain as he receives a polio vaccine at a health care center in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on April 3, 2023. Aditya Aji/AFP via Getty

Playing Catch-Up: Immunization Is Not a Game We Can Afford to Lose

Staff care for a pregnant patient in the Trocaire Doolow Hospital in Doolow, Somalia, October 15,2022. Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA/Getty.

Bridging the Gender Gap around Diagnostic Testing to Embrace Health Equity