Health Systems

Zahoor Ahmed Bhat stands outside his house in the Anantnag district of South Kashmir with the stretcher that his wife, Shakeela AkhterAkhter died on before she could get to an emergency maternal health care center. Image by Aliya Bashir.

Maternal Health

In Kashmir, Coronavirus Pushed Already-Broken Maternal Health over the Brink

A baby who is suffering from respiratory disease receives treatment inside at Dhaka Shishu Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 24, 2021. Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Child & Adolescent Health

How to Reduce Child Deaths After Hospital Discharge

Extreme heat means few customers and little rest for Habib Khan, 65, a banana vendor outside Delhi. Image: Swagata Yadavar

As Heat Kills in India, Action Plans Save Lives

Representatives from 194 member states gather for the opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 20, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

The World Health Assembly: What It Does, Why It Matters

Medyka border crossing, Poland.

What Makes Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis So Different

A health worker at the N’djili vaccinodrome in Kinshasa administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a community member on April 11, 2022. Image: JNK Culture

Africa’s vaccination effort is not losing steam. It is becoming more strategic.

In his first months on the job, Dr. Gawande traveled to Nigeria where USAID is working with local partners to accelerate COVID vaccination rates and ensure distribution of medications for neglected tropical diseases, as well as partnering with Gavi on routine childhood immunizations.

5 Global Health Takeaways from Atul Gawande

A statue of blindfolded Lady Justice holding scales in Brussels, May 12, 2019. Image: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty

‘Shame on us’: Global Health Governance’s Shameful Lack of Diversity

Russian drug police burn bags of Methadone on December 23, 2014 in Simferopol, Crimea—a possible approach in newly occupied areas in Ukraine. Image: Yuriy Lashov/AFP via Getty Images

No Safe Place: Substance Use Therapy in Wartorn Ukraine

sther Sambiri, left, stands with fellow vaccine advocates outside the Nyanga, Zimbabwe, district government office on Dec. 16, 2021. Image: Farai Mutsaka

Infectious Diseases

In Zimbabwe, COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust Stokes HPV Vaccination Fears

Health workers talk to residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dangerous Myth: ‘We’ve Got All the COVID-19 Tools We Need’

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccination certificate in Bimbo, Central African Republic, on November 15, 2021. Image: Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty

It’s Time to Take Coronavirus in Africa Seriously