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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
For centuries, societies have sought to understand health through the data they could collect. From Roman censuses to parish registers in Florence and from the earliest civil registration systems to large-scale digitized population databases. Today, India is generating an unprecedented volume of health information through its rapidly expanding d...
On 3 March every year, the global community comes together to celebrate United Nations World Wildlife Day (WWD), recognizing the essential role that wild animals and plants play in sustaining ecosystems, economies and human well-being. This year’s slogan “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Conserving Health, Heritage and Livelihoods” places ...
The reform of the global health architecture (GHA) discussed in the last WHO Executive Board (E.B.) in February 2026, is a matter of strategic importance for the future of the global health system (GHS) and its functions and for the shaping of the GHA itself. The E.B. approved a Decision requesting that the Director General of WHO: (1) designs a...
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...
