Guinea is less dependent on US funding than many other African countries. As a result, the impact of changes in global health funding on Guinea (and countries like it) is often neglected. In December 2025, Delphin Kolié (Centre National de Formation et de Recherche en Santé Rurale de Maferinyah, Guinea) interviewed several key actors involved ...

In November of 2025 the 30th session of the Conference of Parties (COP30) took place in Belem, Brazil.While the COP has been the central platform for environmental policy for decades, and a touchpoint on current attitudes towards the climate crisis, health has surprisingly not played a very central role in the past. It appears this is – at las...

At the start of my work for development, humanitarian NGOs (and today in academia), I studied and lived the post-colonial beliefs on development. After graduating as an economist in 1987, I began working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then called Zaïre, in a large-scale project covering healthcare, road construction, water and sanitation,...

What does a public health crisis look like when it is produced by state power rather than by disease in the U.S. context?  Global health scholars have grappled with this question ever since the police murder of Minnesotan George Floyd in 2020, and the subsequent  turn toward naming racism as a public health crisis. During the Biden administratio...

Scrub typhus (ST) remains a neglected vector-borne disease that affects millions of people globally every year. Despite being a vector-borne disease with wide geographical coverage, significant morbidity, and a high case fatality rate, it has surprisingly not yet made it to WHO’s vector-borne disease (VBD) list . In this article we argue why S...

During the final months of 2025, the global health community got to know about the America First Global Health Strategy. A complete analysis of all the problem areas of this policy would take us too far: allow me to focus here on the implications for the ongoing negotiations on a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) agreement. During the C...

Every year, around the holiday table, I ask the same question: “How would you describe the past year, and the year ahead, in one word?” The answers are usually hopeful. Change. Clarity. Growth. Stability. If I had to describe the past year in one word for the global health community, however, I would choose grief. It feels as though we have ...

My problem is that I have become a cynic. And not in the charming, world-weary way of a philosopher. I simply no longer believe that the world will get better in any fundamental way. Between climate change, antimicrobial resistance, deepening inequality, and whatever geopolitical crisis is trending this week, we seem to be running a full buffet ...

As a new UHC Knowledge Hub is launched in Japan ahead of international UHC Day, global health reform initiatives should align behind UHC as a country-led, sustainable global health model if they want to stay relevant. Momentum for global health reform is at a peak. The Accra Reset, the Lusaka Agenda, Wellcome Trust’s commissioned proposals, a...