Human Rights

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

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

Person in PPE looks out over Red Square, Moscow. Shutterstock

TB & HIV Slip Through COVID-Weakened Safety Nets

Midwives in Tijuana, Mexico receive clinical support via Zoom. Screenshot courtesy of Xin She

The Untold Global Health Story of 2021: The Midwives of Tijuana

Manual garbage dumping is common in Bangladesh despite the dangers to human health. Many children have no other choice but to search landfills for food. Halishahar, Chattogram, Aug. 27, 2019. Image: Shahriar Farzana.

Pictures of Public Health in Bangladesh

A Xilotepec cemetery worker in Mexico City prepares to receive corpses of COVID-19 victims. May 8, 2020. Image: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty

Top Global Health Moments of 2020

COVID-19 made the future even more uncertain for many vulnerable undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, including this family who arrived from South America 6 years ago, photographed Mar. 24, 2020 in East Boston

COVID-19’s Impact on Undocumented Immigrants in Western Massachusetts

People in Minneapolis attend a candlelight vigil in memory of George Floyd and others on June 7, 2020. Image: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

The Racism Pandemic: Thoughts from an African Student

A maternity matron holds 2 baby girls, the first children conceived through IVF in Kenya, May 2006. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty

Infertility as a Neglected Disease

Allison Bracy of Fontana hugs her daughter Brielle Bracy, 10, while attending a rally with hundreds of demonstrators to protest the death of George Floyd during the coronavirus pandemic in Riverside, California, June 4, 2020.

Lisa Cooper on Why the Racism Roiling America Is a Public Health Issue

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Baltimore Protesters Weigh the Risks—and Take to the Streets

Costa Rican farmworker harvesting bananas covered in insecticidal bags.Costa Rican farmworker harvesting bananas covered in insecticidal bags. Image: Madison Stewart

The Deadly Side of America’s Banana Obsession