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A nurse, seen in profile with a long row of American flags behind her, watches an ambulance driving away outside of Elmhurst Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Queens, New York, on April 20, 2020.

No Fall Zone

by Sonya Stokes, Craig Spencer

This winter, there is zero room for error in emergency medicine

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A physician with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) places his stethoscope to the chest of hospital patient Marco Vargas, who has COVID, in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 1, 2022.

A Help Wanted Sign for Health Workers

by Annie Haakenstad, Megan Knight

What the ratio of doctors to nurses in Bangladesh and the Philippines tells us about the global health worker shortage

Dr. Liz Wangia lets water from a waterfall trickle from her hand in Nairobi National Park, Kenya
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Are Leaders Born or Created?

by Liz Wangia

Becoming a successful physician-leader in Kenya—and anywhere—goes well beyond medical training

A nurse invites people to the booths to receive AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Belgrade, Serbia, March 25, 2021
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Nurses Will Lead Health-Care Teams Out of the Pandemic

by Laura Hoemeke, Melissa T. Ojemeni, Comrade Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun, Natalie Sheneman

Interprofessional collaboration will play an important role in mitigating the global health workforce crisis

Healthcare workers walk through Mount Sinai Hospital as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in New York, U.S., April 5, 2020.
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One Year From the Front Lines of COVID-19 in New York City

by Sonya Stokes

Frontline providers found a solution to communication breakdown during the pandemic: talking to each other

Maasai elders, wearing traditional clothes and facemasks due to coronavirus, gather within the Orboma Manyatta in Sekenani, near the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, on August 10, 2020. This is a striking photo that shows a number of the elders in brightly colored reddish clothing on a clear day against a backdrop of what appears to be a village. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
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In Africa’s COVID-19 Response, Strive, Don’t Settle

by Vanessa Kerry

Broad and equitable health systems could finally be within reach for African countries—closer than the world realizes