Human Rights

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

Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Morocco. Getty Images

Virginity Testing in Morocco: Assault on Dignity, or a Shield Against Assault?

Closing plenary of Women Deliver 2019

Delivery in Progress: Gender Equality

Attendees at a Women Deliver Power Stage event

Women Deliver 2019: Power, Progress and Change

Goodwill ambassador for UNHCR Emtithal Mahmoud delivered a captivating spoken-word performance for the GHN LIVE at Stanford audience on April 10, 2019.

GHN LIVE at Stanford: Awakening Empathy for Refugees

An inside view of es-Sevre (Revolution) hospital after it was attacked by Houthis in Taiz, Yemen on December 31, 2015.

Overdue Action Needed to Stop Attacks on Health Care

A displaced Syrian girl waves to theA Syrian girl waves to the camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Feb. 17, 2019. Image: Aaref Wata/AFP/Getty camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on February 17, 2019. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Rise with Refugees: A GHN LIVE Event with the Stanford Refugee Research Project

Women painted a wall with eyes that stare back, and the message “We won’t be intimidated by your gaze."

For India’s Women, Safety in Numbers

Children play outside the Elder's Qammaq in downtown Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The Heavy Toll of Empty Calories: Nutrition as a Focus for Inuit Health