Infectious Diseases

West Dhanmondi, Dhaka, March 31, 2021. Image:Taufique Joarder

In Bangladesh, Plenty of Vaccines but Few Takers

Doctors and nurses walk to a house to administer the Chinese Sinovac Coronavac vaccine to a resident during a house call in the village of Daldere, Turkey, Feb. 12, 2021. Image: Chris McGrath/Getty

Making Vaccines the New Social Norm

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 man works in a mass grave at the cemetery Nossa Senhora Aparecida in Manaus, Brazil. May 19, 2020. Image: Lucas Silva/picture alliance/Getty

Brazilian Physician on a Mission

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