Blog: Global Health

In August 1991, health officials in Peru received notice of a suspected case of polio in the small Andean region …

Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic mean that many people around the world are left without access to essential health services. …

Within five years the world has the chance to make polio a thing of the past, only the second disease …

Global health security is more than pandemic preparedness — it includes protection from the epidemics the world is already facing, …

In South Sudan, COVID-19 is yet another challenge that risks overshadowing the preexisting humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable. Thanks …

This year’s World Health Assembly may be the most pivotal in history. As the world still battles COVID-19 and tries …

COVID-19 took the world by surprise, forcing even the most prepared countries to reexamine their ability to respond to pandemic …

Equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines makes public health sense, economic sense, and moral sense. But if vaccine …

While the COVID-19 crisis is top of mind right now, the next pandemic threat that could once again upend our …

While COVID-19 has had a distressing impact on mental health around the globe, World Health Organization professionals working in this …