Trump’s push to exit the WHO could impact global disease control
A Good Chat on what you need to know about the potential U.S. withdrawal and its consequences.
What does it take to build up women’s rights after war?
This nuanced compilation looks at women’s empowerment after Sierra Leone’s civil war, from different perspectives
Paul Farmer’s last book teaches still more about pandemics
With a great deal of storytelling, Farmer emphasizes that it’s a mistake when policymakers focus on controlling spread rather than delivering health care
Announcing the ninth African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular!
Join us in reading some of the latest books on African politics
What happens to childhood vaccine rates in conflict zones? This analysis found some surprises.
We examined more than 200,000 records in 15 African countries
New variants mean we’re only as strong as the weakest national health systems. Identifying them is hard.
To tackle threats like omicron, we need to know how well different countries are prepared for pandemics
WHO workers are accused of sexual exploitation and abuse. That hurts everything the U.N. does.
As one official told me: ‘The U.N. is not a superpower. It has only its moral authority, and if you undermine that, you’re finished.’
There’s a long, global history to today’s anti-Asian bias and violence
‘Foreigners’ have been blamed for disease all the way back to the bubonic plague — and probably beyond