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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

The World Health Assembly, which sets WHO priorities, convenes virtually May 24 – June 1. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

A High-Stakes World Health Assembly, Previewed

A view from Milford Beach, on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. April 2021. Image: Robert Borotkanics

In New Zealand, A Response to be Proud of

The Big Question: Will Vaccine Passports Fly?

US President Joe Biden signs executive orders as part of the COVID-19 response. Washington, DC, January 21, 2021. Image: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty

Who Should Lead Global Health?