Blog: Global Health

Tracking disease and containing contagion at the World Health Organization

By Chelsea Hedquist on February 19, 2014

The World Health Organization (WHO) is generally the first place the world turns for information on potential international health emergencies. In addition to WHO’s roster of health experts and its decades of experience with health threats, it also plays a central role in carrying out the International Health Regulations (IHR), a global framework adopted in 2005 to help improve global public health security.

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Watch the Super Bowl and Help Fight AIDS

By Rick Parnell on February 2, 2014

Today most Americans will take part in a big annual tradition, gathering with friends and family to watch the Super Bowl – and a bunch of new commercials. This year, one commercial will do more than get people talking; it will get them taking action to help fight AIDS.

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