Research

Closeup of a surgeon in green scrubs and her assistants operating on a patient. Universal Images Group Getty

Representing Global Surgery and Sometimes, All of Africa

Engaging students in Grenada. Nikita Cudjoe

From Parachute Science to Community Engagement and Advocacy

A hand reaches for the sky.

I Took a Step Back to Help Others Scoot Forward

Sunlight streams through a bird cage, casting a shadow of bird against a wall.

I Use My ADHD to Blast Through the Boundaries of Conventional Thinking

A shark swimming through water.

I Walked a Shark and Found My Way Into Science

A silhouetted youth leaps across a sunset in Cape Town, South. Africa. Joshua Earle / unsplash

Child & Adolescent Health

The Through Line Connecting the Juvenile Delinquent With the Academic I Am Today

Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Hotez on Patent-Free Vaccines—and Texas, Tito’s, and Twitter

A woman at Akinlapa oil farm filters the fresh palm fruits. Abiodun Jamiu

Local Reporting Initiative

Delicious and Nutritious: The Unrealized Potential of Red Palm Oil

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How Covid Slowed Basic Science

Decolonize Global Health Week

A technician places a beaker into a hatch inside the Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines Ltd. laboratory facility in Cape Town, South Africa, July 12, 2021; the WHO announced it will establish its first-ever mRNA technology transfer hub in Cape Town in an agreement with Afrigen and the Biovac Institute. Photographer: Image: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Envisioning a New Public Health Order in Africa

A volunteer takes pictures with her mobile phone of others lighting candles in the shape of a red ribbon during an awareness event on the eve of World AIDS Day in Siliguri, West Bengal, India, on November 30, 2021.

Infectious Diseases

Science and Equity Must Go Hand-in-Hand to End AIDS