Vaccines

A CDC scientist demonstrates a lab technique called “candling,” to gauge the egg's suitability for use in growing flu viruses. Image: CDC/ Robert Denty

Flu Season in N. America: 5 Facts

Loyce Pace, Global Health Council executive director, at #WHA72 in Geneva. (Image: BWS)

A View Inside the Whirlwind: Loyce Pace on #WHA72

#WHA72 committee members discuss polio eradication and plans for a polio-free world on May 23, 2019. (Image: BWS)

Polio: Waiting for the Final Blow

Protesters demonstrating in Rome, Italy on July 28, 2017 as Italy’s lawmakers voted to make vaccinations mandatory for children at school registration. Image: Simona Granati/Corbis/Corbis via Getty

Booster Shot for Vaccines

“We all got pretty darn comfortable with the success story of global health,” says author Laurie Garrett. Image: Courtesy

Public Health’s Precarious Nature

A packed agenda of policy and budget discussions await delegates to this year’s World Health Assembly. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty, 2012

7 Things to Watch at the 2019 World Health Assembly—#WHA72

Vaccine scientist and autism dad Peter Hotez dispels autism myths in his latest book. (Image: Brian W. Simpson / Sept. 27, 2018)

Peter Hotez: It’s Time for Scientists to Speak Up for Science

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’

School girls at an HPV vaccination campaign event in Vietnam. © 2007 Amynah Janmohamed,

Safeguard a Vaccine Program with a Well-Planned Rollout

Airplane in Sunset

Before You Leave for Overseas, Do These 5 Things

A health worker at Bikoro Hospital, DRC readies to confront Ebola. (Image: ©UNICEF/UN0209049/Naftalin)

DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Not An International Emergency—Yet, Says WHO

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

To Vex the Vectors, Look Beyond Vaccines