Tech & Innovations

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

A child at the Makerere University of Public Health in Kampala is fitted with a "smart jacket" that diagnoses pneumonia faster than a doctor. Image: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty

Global Forum Renews Political Will on Childhood Pneumonia

Active screening for sleeping sickness in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo credit: FIND/Ndung’u 2018

Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Lesson in Elimination?

A child watches videos on a mobile device in Burhanpur, India. © 2019 Danish Mansuri, Image Courtesy of Photoshare

The New Norm of “Constancy” and Global Public Health

Attendees at a Women Deliver Power Stage event

Women Deliver 2019: Power, Progress and Change

Members of the NCDFREE youth

We’re the Bold, Innovative NCD Solution You’re Looking For

Cape Town residents fill their water jugs at the Highlands Spring in February 2018.

How Cape Town Defeated Day Zero—for Now

Blockchain technology could bring much-needed transparency and data traceability to the opioid prescription system. Image: Getty Images

A Blockchain Solution to the Opioid Crisis

Céline Mabot Yobo collects a drop of blood from a young girl for immunological analysis.

To Vex the Vectors, Look Beyond Vaccines