People living in the vicinity of dams in Africa will likely see a doubling of the odds they will get…
Zika is spreading in southeast Asia, but with minimal screening and reporting, the number of official cases remains unusually low.…
Climate change is bad news for the planet, including the mosquitoes living in West Africa. Reduced rainfall will make it…
In a rare act of bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Global Food Security Act (S. 1252). It…
After months of congressional debate over the Obama administration’s $1.9 billion request to tackle Zika, a spending bill that would…
GENEVA — World Health Organization member states agreed on Wednesday to more than double the group’s emergency fund to $494…
Everybody is talking about how best to reform the WHO, arguably the best vehicle for coordinating the ever-changing global health agenda. But a new election process using secret ballots for appointing the next director-general is hardly a promising start.
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who…
Since 2010, the percentage of Americans who say they have heard “a lot” or “some” about U.S. global health efforts…
A few months ago, Ebola was the big story. Now it’s Zika. Is our approach to global health a comprehensive strategy or a series of reactions to the threat du jour?