Opinion

Close-up of a syringe held by a health ministry employee preparing to vaccinate girls against the HPV virus with several girls wearing sky blue uniform shirts in a blurred-out background.

The Untapped Potential of a Simple Shot

Maggie Medison, 18, joined PEPFAR’s DREAMS program in Malawi and now is a peer educator, working with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of staying in school and protection against HIV. Nov. 14, 2017.

Learning Our Lessons: What’s Missing from Pandemic Preparedness

A man wearing a skull face mask walks past a Pepsi and Coca-Cola ad in the center of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. December 30, 2021.

Time to Check Unfettered Power of Corporate Giants Over Health

Children hold signs and giant paper cigarettes emblazoned with "No Smoking" to raise awareness of the harms caused by tobacco products on World No Tobacco Day. Mumbai, India, May 31, 2022.

NCDs Are Coming for Youth. Are They Up for the Fight?

Engaging students in Grenada. Nikita Cudjoe

From Parachute Science to Community Engagement and Advocacy

Aerial view of workers growing water spinach on ecological floating beds at Chun'an County in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.

Nutrition Improvements Require Stronger Commitments

A woman gives a polio vaccine to baby.

Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

A pack of cyclists join a Sunday ride together on a city street lined by trees in Mexico City

Trading Cars for Bikes: 1 Way Cities Are Improving Health

Several health care workers wearing face masks and yellow protective suits acknowledge applause outside the Hospital de Barcelona on April 13, 2020 in Barcelona, during a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

Bring on the Big Wins for Global Health in 2023

Children walk home from school in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 30, 2022. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

Africa’s Different Dengue Symptoms Require New WHO Diagnostic Criteria

Students participate in a rural vaccination drive at a school in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on March 9, 2022. Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Africa’s New Approach to Public Health

A doctor gives a free blood sugar test on World Diabetes Day in Khartoum, Sudan on Nov. 14, 2019. Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua via Getty

Noncommunicable Diseases

Diagnostics Not Just Insulin Needed to Fight Diabetes