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Maintenance employees of the IMSS hospital in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, prep for Hurricane Genevieve on August 19, 2020. Alfredo Martinez/Getty Images

‘The Gates of Hell’ Have Opened—Can Health Systems Help Close Them?

A mother carrying her young child with a health card arrives a rural health center in Brindaban village in Bihar on June 19. Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty

A Blueprint for Inclusive Health Architecture: Insights from India's G20

Aerial view of workers growing water spinach on ecological floating beds at Chun'an County in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.

Nutrition Improvements Require Stronger Commitments

A photograph of the World Health Assembly.

The 2023 World Health Assembly: A New Playbook for Health Emergencies?

A side view of WHO headquarters on a cloudy day in 2019 in Geneva.

The 2023 World Health Assembly: A New Financial Lifeline for WHO?

3 workers unload boxes of vaccines from a truck in Bujumbura, Burundi.

Strength Testing the Global Pandemic Treaty

Children walk home from school in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 30, 2022. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

Africa’s Different Dengue Symptoms Require New WHO Diagnostic Criteria

Health workers walk from house to house during a polio vaccination campaign in Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano, Nigeria. April 22, 2017. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

The Last Mile: How We’ll Stop All Poliovirus in Africa

Representatives from 194 member states gather for the opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 20, 2019. Image: Brian W. Simpson

The World Health Assembly: What It Does, Why It Matters

Medyka border crossing, Poland.

What Makes Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis So Different

An injured resident of Togoga arrives at the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2021. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images

Tigray (and Its Health Care System) Under Siege

Cubicles housing patients on the arena floor inside a temporary Covid-19 hospital at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 17, 2020. Image: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty

‘Dangerously Unprepared’: New Report Faults Countries’ Pandemic Readiness… Again