Tech & Innovations

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

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

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

A Nepalese health worker takes a nasal swab of a parliamentary lawmaker for a coronavirus PCR test in Kathmandu on May 5. Image: Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via Getty

Help Wanted: Digital Innovations to Bridge Diagnostic Gaps

Older adults in Quito, Ecuador receive their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine yesterday. Image: Rafael Rodriguez/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Tech Companies Have a Role in Expanding Vaccine Access, Information

Passengers wear masks while commuting on the Shanghai metro, April 7 2021. Image: Wei Wei

'Vaccines Are Not Our Cure'

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 technician handles samples from truck drivers testing for COVID-19 at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, May 14, 2020. Image: Brian Ongoro/AFP/Getty

New Dashboard Aims to Democratize COVID-19 Data

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

Scientist Xinhua Yan works in the lab at Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Feb. 28, 2020. Image: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty

At Risk for COVID-19? Warp Speed Vaccine Trials Want You

Habiba Suleiman, 29, a district malaria surveillance officer, records the results of a rapid diagnostic test for malaria at a home visit in Zanzibar, January 28, 2015.

USAID Deserves a Bigger Role in the Global “Dance” to Defeat COVID-19

A ventilator and other hospital equipment in an emergency field hospital to aid in the COVID-19 pandemic in Central Park on March 31, 2020 in New York. Image: Misha Friedman/Getty

Why It’s So Hard to Solve the Ventilator Shortage