International Health

It is only a matter of time before the next deadly infectious disease wreaks havoc somewhere in the world. Do we respond like we did when we stopped smallpox? Or do we prolong the crisis and create collateral damage such as xenophobia and lost jobs, as we have done in…

The next White House Global COVID-19 Summit is a chance for advocates to push for investments to end the pandemic, including expanding access to existing tools and accelerating innovation.

When the Ebola virus was ravaging West African countries in 2014, health care providers, public health researchers and activists worked feverishly to stamp it out before it spread and turned into the type of life-shattering pandemic we’re all too familiar with today.

CAPE TOWN – When minutes mean the difference between death and life, chances that rural South Africans will survive a stroke are slim. The lack of specialist care and tools such as MRIs or CT scanners in rural areas mean many patients will never receive the diagnosis or…

Deleting a protein in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the principal vector for malaria transmission in Africa, could disrupt the mosquito-to-human transmission cycle

 A couple long years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy to think of it as a once-in-a-generation event. Instead, the pandemic should be viewed as “a warning shot” in the face of mounting biological threats  that countries still aren’t prepared to meet, according to…

After 20 years of health care gains, Afghanistan is already seeing a backslide.