Infectious Diseases

A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey. Image: Kena Betancur/Getty

Pandemic Showcases Value of Global Health R&D, While Imperiling its Future

A worker displays syringes at the Hindustan Syringes factory in Faridabad as India ramped up production ahead of a coronavirus vaccine rollout. September 2, 2020 Image: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty

What It Means When Billions of People Must Wait Years for a COVID Vaccine

A person walks by a sign that reads "One small ask, please wear a mask." New York City, May 27, 2020. Image: Rob Kim/Getty

We Need to Focus on the Science of Human Behavior to End COVID Pandemic

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

A health worker takes a blood sample from an XDR-TB patient at Kitgum Hospital in northern Uganda Image: Diana Tumuhairwe, Management Sciences for Health

A 2-Front Battle: COVID-19 Must Reinvigorate the Fight Against TB

Loyce Pace at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, May 22, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

Loyce Pace’s Path to the Biden-Harris Transition Team

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML

COVID-19 Expert Reality Check

Mosquito control volunteers in Senegal visit members of their community to count sleeping places for distribution of mosquito nets. Courtesy, President's Malaria Initiative, 2012. Image: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

It’s Time for African Youth to Advance the Fight against Malaria

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spar in the first presidential debate. Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. Image: Scott Olson/Getty

That Was Bad

A woman wearing a mask watches a traditional ceremony in La Paz, Bolivia on September 21, 2020. Image: Gaston Brito/Getty Images

“You Carry Your Suffering Alone”: COVID-19’s Extra Burden on Women

Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care