Health Systems

Eliot Rojas, his wife, and Romina in the hospital before she had her C-Section. Image Courtesy of Eliot Rojas.

Maternal Health

Doctors Push C-Sections in Chile, but Women Are Pushing Back

Danilea Villegas and her children. Image: Paige Sutherland

Maternal Health

Profit over Patients: C-Sections in Chile Reach Alarming High

A technician places a beaker into a hatch inside the Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines Ltd. laboratory facility in Cape Town, South Africa, July 12, 2021; the WHO announced it will establish its first-ever mRNA technology transfer hub in Cape Town in an agreement with Afrigen and the Biovac Institute. Photographer: Image: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Envisioning a New Public Health Order in Africa

Cubicles housing patients on the arena floor inside a temporary Covid-19 hospital at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 17, 2020. Image: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty

‘Dangerously Unprepared’: New Report Faults Countries’ Pandemic Readiness… Again

David Carlisle, James E.K. Hildreth, and Michelle Spencer discussing health disparities at the virtual Bloomberg American Health Summit, Nov. 10, 2021.

Public Health Pulls Lessons from Pandemic Discord and Disparities

Volunteer paramedics provide antibiotic treatment to a COVID-19 patient in Caracas, Venezuela. August 20, 2021. Image: Pedro Ramses Mattey/Anadolu Agency/Getty

A Second, Silent Pandemic: Antibiotic Resistance

A wheelchair sits in rubble following an attack targeting a hospital in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the western Aleppo countryside, Syria, March 21, 2021.

Strengthen Monitoring of Attacks on Health Care to Uphold Public Health and Human Rights

NIH director Francis Collins at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Washington, DC, July 2, 2020. Image: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/Getty

Francis Collins' Take

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge illuminated during World Alzheimer's Day in Istanbul, Turkey. September 21, 2021.

The 100-Foot Ladder to Tackle Global Alzheimer’s

An inside view of es-Sevre (Revolution) hospital after Shiite Houthis shelling in Taiz, Yemen on December 31, 2015. Image: Abdulnasser Seddek/Anadolu Agency/Getty

Perilous Medicine: The Quest to Restore Protections for Health Workers

A pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal, at a conservation site in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, September 14, 2020. Vietnam has vowed to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade often blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty

‘Different faces of a single threat’: Global Health Must Play a Bigger Role in Planetary Health

Tonga's King Tupou VI is vaccinated at his palace in Nuku'alofa. July 24, 2021. Image: Kalafi Moala

Tonga is Still COVID-Free—How Long Can a Travel Ban Keep It That Way?