Interviews

Our editorial team sits down with the voices shaping global health today

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Governance
outbreaks continue in Shanghai, China, December 9, 2022.

Over One Million Projected COVID Deaths in China

IHME's Ali Mokdad breaks down what that means

Governance
A close-up photo of a hand in a black medical glove shows Dr. Mayank Amin preparing a Moderna COVID booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2022.

Is It the End of COVID-19 as We Know it?

IHME Director Christopher Murray weighs in on the state of the pandemic, the new omicron vaccine, and flu season

A mother holds her child, at the Fort Wagner Casino and Hotel, on the Yankton Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, on September 9, 2021.
Poverty

American Indian Vaccination Gaps Amid Measles Outbreak

A Pascua Yaqui-Yavapai Apache physician explains what vaccination gaps mean for American Indians during the outbreak

A boy receives polio vaccine drops, during a polio vaccination campaign, in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 9, 2018.
Governance

A WHO Director on the Future of Polio Eradication

Hamid Jafari, the World Health Organization's polio chief for the Eastern Mediterranean, discusses funding post-USAID

One of Global Health's Great Successes
Governance

The "Miracle" of the Polio Vaccine

Polio expert Walter Orenstein speaks about the important legacy of the polio vaccine following efforts to undermine it

A patient care coordinator at AltaMed, speaks to a man during a community outreach on Obamacare.
Poverty

Claim Denied: U.S. Insurance and Health Equity

Researcher Alex Hoagland discusses the links between race, income, education and claim denials for preventive care

Robert F. Kennedy Jr speaks at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. July 26, 2024.
Governance

"Compelled by Our Fears": RFK Jr. and Vaccine Doubt

A conversation about what to expect from vaccine policy if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. runs Health and Human Services

First-year medical students participate in a virtual anatomy class at the UNLV School of Medicine.
Gender

Illustrating Change: Diversity in Medical Textbooks

Three illustrators discuss how diversity can help providers recognize how diseases manifest across different people

Catalina Leano, a licensed vocational nurse at Houston Women's Reproductive Services, performs an ultrasound with the clinic doctor present.
Gender

A Kansas Physician on Post-Roe Abortion Care

An OB-GYN explains the realities of abortion care after Dobbs and how providers are handling the patient overflows

Migrants are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing into the United States from Mexico.
Migration

Abortion Access for U.S. Immigrants

A reproductive epidemiologist explores the barriers and gateways to abortion access for U.S. immigrants

A cow has its hair trimmed.
Governance

The United States Isn't Ready for a Bird Flu Epidemic

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm discusses what's keeping the United States from closing public health gaps

Ddungu Annet, a 39-year-old nursing officer, washes her hands in the labor ward before examining an expectant mother at Nabweru Health Center, Uganda.
Poverty

The Economic Constraints on Clean Water

Investing in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) reduces the financial costs of disease outbreaks

Chikwe Ihekweazu, former director general of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, speaks during a press briefing on the outbreak of mpox, in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 16, 2017.
Governance

Designing A New National Center for Disease Control

Infectious disease epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu recounts the advent of Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control

Changing Woman Initiative board and staff members, wearing traditional clothing from their respective tribes, connect with open hands to symbolize their acceptance of prayers and blessings.
Gender

Empowering Native Mothers Through Midwifery

A nurse-midwife from the Navajo Nation on why there's now enough data to advance Indigenous birthing policy