Disposal of medical waste is not the most glamorous issue in global health, yet the risk it poses to health workers, community members, and the environment is significant in resource-poor locations ...

Investing in international health makes our own country safer; a health threat anywhere can become a health threat everywhere ...

Global health challenges call for solutions that are national, regional, or continent-wide in scope. This makes partnership with national and subnational governments essential, as government ...

Climate change in Earth's polar regions is emerging as an underrecognized driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. A study by ...

Over the past two decades, global health has undergone a profound transformation. As public funding for international health and development has become increasingly unpredictable, private philanthropy ...

For more than 50 years, Jhpiego—a nonprofit global health affiliate of Johns Hopkins University—has worked to advance U.S. interests while improving health outcomes and saving lives around the globe.

President Trump is making good on his preelection pledge to withdraw from the World Health Organization. In one of many orders issued after his inauguration, he announced the start of the process for ...

The concept of global health developed gradually over eight decades. In the 1940s, the term "global health" first appeared in the scientific literature. 1 The World Health Organization (WHO) used this ...

At the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies' 15th annual Undergraduate Design Competition, the future of global health innovation was on full display. Rice University welcomed 22 student ...

Over the past two decades, global health has undergone a profound transformation. As public funding for international health and development has become increasingly unpredictable, private philanthropy ...