International Health

Putting ‘America First’ in global health risks unraveling decades of progress, argue two health leaders.

Rehabilitation is one of the most overlooked elements of disaster response. Even after years of global advocacy and guidance, early rehab is still seen as optional or secondary and is systemically excluded from emergency response plans. 

Amid conflict and U.S. cuts, MSF clinics in Yemen see vaccine-preventable diseases “on a daily basis.” 

Grilo will oversee the growing suite of leadership programs following the recent retirement of Steve Tamplin.

Developed countries and international organizations must immediately step up to stabilize the situation in Sudan and build back pediatric health infrastructure, writes Habab A. Iraqi in a GHN commentary.

Robbins co-leads the Risk Assessment and Early Detection Team at the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Anti-malaria programs, largely focused on vector control, have saved many millions of lives—albeit with recent gains now threatened—since the moment in 1897 when the India Medical Service’s Ronald Ross demonstrated that the “dapple winged mosquito” and not miasmatic “bad air” was the vehicle of malaria transmission.

Venezuelan migrants in northern Brazil are at great risk of exploitation and trafficking, but they have some powerful protectors: a diverse group of women committed to helping them.

Wedged between Brazil’s borders with Venezuela and Guyana, the capital of Roraima state is a hub for trafficking in drugs, weapons, gold, people, and organs.

While in primary school in Cameroon, Samuel Akombeng Ojong's father told him he would one day attend Johns Hopkins University. His father's dream is now a reality—Ojong is earning his DrPH at the Bloomberg School and concentrating in Women's and Reproductive Health. 

The 1.2 million Venezuelan migrants fleeing their country have been met with a rare blend of military logistical support and respect for humanitarian autonomy.

A cash incentive program in Nigeria spurred a surge in the number of mothers bringing their children for vaccinations—a stark departure from the past, when workers often had to go out and persuade women to bring their children for vaccinations.

Some people who have lived their whole lives at high altitude can develop chronic altitude sickness in their older years. The current cure is limited to moving to a lower altitude.

Q&A with Tahmeed Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, executive director of icddr,b, a global health research institute based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

Some nations have already taken decisive steps to ban mercury amalgam in dental fillings—but in Zambia, despite the dangers, progress has stalled.