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A man offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. The photo shows a man dressed entirely in protective gear with his head bowed in font of an ambulance and before what appears to be a corpse wrapped in white sheets. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Rethinking the Future of Global Health

by Vaibhav Gupta

There can be no better time to reimagine our health security based on global cooperation, equity, trust, and solidarity

Governance
Nine-year-old Tumelo holds his grandmother's hand after taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, south of Johannesburg, on November 28, 2014. Picture shows a large adult hand and the lower part of a child’s face in the background as his own hand grasps his grandmother’s.

In Global Health, What’s Past Is Prologue

by Ruth E. Levine

The global health community cannot jury-rig its way to the future and requires fresh thinking to address new challenges

A mother plays with her thirteen-month old child Neerob, who is suffering from diarrhoea, at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease & Research (ICDDRB), in Dhaka April 6, 2012.
Urbanization

The Attainable Promise of Oral Rehydration Solution

by Christopher Troeger

If every kid in the world with diarrhea had access to this simple blend, 300,000 children’s lives a year could be saved