Breaking the ‘XX Paradox’
Women are the driving force behind global health. They make up 70% of the global health workforce and 90% of…
Trading Cars for Bikes: 1 Way Cities Are Improving Health
COVID-19’s disruption of day-to-day living uncovered valuable insights into what people need and want from the cities they call home.…
Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable
Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as…
Strength Testing the Global Pandemic Treaty
In September 2019, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board predicted a major respiratory pandemic that would cause millions of deaths and…
China says it rejected U.S. call over balloon because ‘atmosphere’ wasn’t right
HONG KONG — China on Friday accused U.S. lawmakers of “political manipulation and hype” over the downing of its suspected…
Bush demanded billions for AIDS in Africa at his 2003 State of the Union. It paid off.
President George W. Bush’s reputation may have been forever complicated by 9/11 and war, but a proposal he made in…
Bring on the Big Wins for Global Health in 2023
We reached out to some key global health experts to ask them what big global health wins they would love…
G20 Health Working Group meeting: India to play proactive role in negotiations
Synopsis “India has exported drugs and vaccines to over 150 countries globally during the pandemic. Presently, medical counter-measures availability is…
IOC gives more time to pick 2030 Olympic host, studies rotating Winter Games
The 2030 Winter Olympic host, expected to be Salt Lake City or Sapporo, Japan, is no longer targeted to be…
Dispatches from ICFP 2022 in Pattaya City, Thailand
Thailand Takeaways – November 22, 2022 Image The ICFP2022 Tuk Tuk, Pattaya, Thailand, November 15, 2022. The International Conference on…
COVID-19 could be the end of ‘global health’ as we know it
The pandemic has made us painfully aware of our common vulnerability to disease outbreaks. New communicable diseases originating in one…
Health secretary Thérèse Coffey gave leftover prescription drugs to a poorly friend – is this advisable or legal?
Thérèse Coffey, the health secretary for England, has admitted to giving her leftover antibiotics to friends and family who were…