Research

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

Delicious and Nutritious: The Unrealized Potential of Red Palm Oil

Equipment is seen at the Yale University Lab in New Haven, Connecticut. August 26, 2019. George Etheredge/Bloomberg/Getty.

How Covid Slowed Basic Science

A series of images representing various aspects of health care.

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

NIH director Francis Collins at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Washington, DC, July 2, 2020. Image: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/Getty

Francis Collins' Take

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge illuminated during World Alzheimer's Day in Istanbul, Turkey. September 21, 2021.

The 100-Foot Ladder to Tackle Global Alzheimer’s

Illustration by Gail Ward, courtesy of Innovations for Poverty Action

Q&A: The Massive Bangladesh Mask Trial, Unmasked

A pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal, at a conservation site in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, September 14, 2020. Vietnam has vowed to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade often blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty

‘Different faces of a single threat’: Global Health Must Play a Bigger Role in Planetary Health