International Health

Controlling malaria requires supplies, time, and constant vigilance—but rendering mosquitoes incapable of transmitting human pathogens could be the key to eradicating it for good.

My path to public health included a beauty pageant in the world’s newest country.

The daunting problem has some powerful solutions. The first is family planning.

A child of colonialism, global health began with the export of Western concepts of health and medical care—and the protection of colonizers from local diseases. Here’s how committed insurgents in the field are overturning those lingering perspectives.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spotlighted the long-standing issue of attacks on hospitals, medical personnel, and civilian populations during times of war.

The parasite-mosquito-human nexus spawns an incredibly complex disease challenge. Successes against malaria often don’t last, nor are they easily replicated. Yet.