Poverty
Poverty
SNAP Benefits in 2026: What Older Adults Should Expect From Work Requirements
by Anika Nayak
An explainer outlines new work requirements for U.S. food benefits and the ways older adults can meet them
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Governance
Governance
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker
This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases
Governance
How Medicaid Policies Shape County Health-Care Performance
Governance
The State of Global Health Funding: August 2025
Data in Global Health
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The WHO estimates that nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are experiencing life-altering injuries because of the war
Two Years of the Gaza War in Three Health Charts50%
The number of geriatric physicians increased 50% between 2020 and 2023
Going Gray: National Aging Plans Gain Global Traction26%
A daily intake of 50 grams of processed meat elevates the risk for colorectal cancer by 26%
Are Processed Meat, Sugary Drinks, and Trans Fats Safe at Any Level?600,000
Malaria claims nearly 600,000 lives per year worldwide
A New Malaria Drug Can Treat Infants—If Health Systems Support It2.5 Times
Rates of maternal death among Black women were 2.5 times those of white women in 2022
Addressing Mississippi's Maternal Health-Care Shortage1,200
Nearly 1,200 attacks on health-care workers and facilities have taken place in the three years since the coup
In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground1 in 4
One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by age 45
"Pregnant People Will Die as a Result of Overturning Roe v. Wade"500,000
UNRWA educates more than 500,000 children and provides basic health services to almost 6 million people
UNRWA Under Fire70%
More than 70 percent of adult men smoke in Indonesia
Tobacco Control Goes Missing from Indonesia's Presidential Ballot1967
In 1967, the WHO identified unsafe abortion as a serious public health problem in many countries
U.S. Abortion Law and Dissenting from the Norm45 Percent
The number of people dying from opioid use in the U.S. in 2021 was nearly 45 percent higher than in 2020
Opioid Overdose Deaths: What the United States Can Learn From Other CountriesSeries
See AllIt's time to rethink U.S. engagement on global health
Governance
Governance
A Bio-Responsibility Strategy for Gain-of-Function Research Oversight
Controversy about research on dangerous pathogens requires the U.S. government to adopt a new governance approach
Governance
China's Integrated Policies on Climate Change and Health
A New Public Health Order for Africa
A series exploring a new public health order for Africa, guest-edited by Ebere Okereke
Global Health and the "Second Independence of Africa"
NBC News
CDC Overhauls Childhood Vaccine Schedule to Resemble Denmark in Unprecedented Move
by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Erika Edwards, and Mustafa FattahThe new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
HHS Recommends Home HPV Testing For Women For the First Time
by Liz SzaboThe new guidelines are geared toward women at average risk of cervical cancer, which was diagnosed in more than 13,000 U.S. women last year
New York Times
RFK Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
by Apoorva MandavilliA Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health”
Devex
State Department Scrambles to Rebuild Foreign Aid Workforce
by Elissa Miolene“What we’re seeing anecdotally is a recreation of the things that we just tore down,” says Rohit Nepal, the Department of State vice president