Best of 2020
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Best of 2020

Our editors’ top picks from the past year

A resident rests on a bike in a "hutong", an alleyway, in Beijing, China.
A resident rests along a "hutong", an alleyway, in Beijing, May 25, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Lee
by TGH Editorial Team

Think Global Health's Best of 2020

Our editor's top picks from the past year.

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Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins, who gave this interview. IMAGE from Brooke Ross Photography

Racism as a Public Health Crisis

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Thomas J. Bollyky

Interview with Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins on the intersection of race, health, and COVID-19

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Coronavirus in Samoa

by Nicola Hawley

Serendipitous twist of a tragic 2019 measles outbreak may have left small island nation unusually prepared for COVID-19

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The March of Private Health Care in Southeast Asia

by Swee Kheng Khor

How can a government achieve universal coverage for all citizens in a landscape where private care is deeply entrenched?

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A woman mourns at the grave of her husband who passed away due to COVID-19, at a burial area provided by the government for COVID-19 victims as the country reports a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths, in Bekasi, Indonesia, on July 27, 2021

Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up? (09/2021)

by Christopher Troeger

Despite a likely undercount in many places, COVID-19 is the leading killer in most of Latin America and Western Europe

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Line chart titled “Aging Populations on the Rise Worldwide” showing the percentage of people age 60 and older in six WHO regions from 1950 to 2100. Solid lines represent 1950–2025 and dotted lines show projections (2025–2100). Europe has consistently had the highest proportion of older adults, rising from 11% in 1950 to 25% in 2025, and surpassing 35% by 2100. The Americas and Western Pacific have steady increases. Africa remains lowest, rising from 5% in 1950 to 10% in 2025—and reaching 20% by 2100.

Going Gray: National Aging Plans Gain Global Traction

A man walks past the liquid oxygen storage tank installed at Bir Hospital by the United States Agency for International Development, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on February 9, 2025.

USAID Lost: Stories From Colombia, Kenya, and Nepal

Staff label plastic bags filled with donated blood, in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 9, 2012.

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

Veronica Jones, a survivor of aggressive breast cancer walks her neighborhood, in Convent, Louisiana, on Thursday June 26, 2025.

Cancer Patients and the Medicaid Cuts in "One Big, Beautiful Bill"