Tech & Innovations

Iruka Okeke and her small team run a national surveillance project tracking antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria

Local Reporting Initiative

The Bacterial Detective Trying to Stop Superbugs in Nigeria

Rhys White, microbial genomics lead at Public Health and Forensic Science, and a colleague review a pangenome graph showing a key antibiotic-resistance gene.

Tech & Innovations

Frontline Genomics With AI: Nanopores, Lifesaving Diagnostics, and Squiggles

A public health vending machine that distributes free naloxone, at the Deadwood Tavern, in Iowa City

Tech & Innovations

Dispensing ‘Free Chances at Life’: Public Health Vending Machines Are More Than a Novelty

Microscope section showing 622A_cecum through a healthy mouse cecum stained with Haematoxylin-eosin

Antimicrobial Resistance

‘Gardeningʼ in the Gut: Tackling Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria With Vaccines and Friendly Bacteria

Biostatistician Elizabeth Stuart (in purple) makes a point to HHS assistant secretary Micky Tripathi; other AI event panelists (l to r): Alison Snyder, John Auerbach, and Jesse Ehrenfeld.

Tech & Innovations

AI in Public Health: Gaps, Disparities, and Remarkable Potential

A health care worker wearing a peach button-down blouse sits at a desk wearing a headset to connect with hotline callers in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Tech & Innovations

Leveraging Technology to Bridge Health System Gaps

A woman enters a pharmacy after a Russian drone attack on January 31, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine; the letters on the sign (anteka, which means pharmacy in Ukraine) are damaged and falling off the building front.

Pandemic Agreement May Happen Eventually ... But Will the World Be Ready?

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