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A world map showing vaccine-preventable disease hot spots, with colored circles indicating outbreak size and location. Measles outbreaks (red) appear across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Large chicken pox (green) and RSV (purple) outbreaks are visible in Asia. Yellow circles mark whooping cough in the Americas and Oceania, while smaller circles show diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, mumps, and polio outbreaks in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Circle size corresponds to outbreak magnitude, with a sample scale showing 10,000 cases. The map is labeled “Think Global Health.”

Tracking Measles and the World's Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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This weekly map visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

Community health workers prepare vaccines for a measles vaccination drive amid a surge in cases, in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, on February 25, 2026.

Global Health Reform for Communities Beyond Institutions

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Much of global health progress has been driven by small teams, writes the head of Expertise France's major pandemics cluster

Multilane Procurement Amid the America First Health Agenda

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Health procurement in low- and middle-income countries will remain unavoidably multilane. Donors should build around that reality

An Ethiopian Cargo terminal worker offloads a shipment of Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccines that arrived under the COVAX scheme, at the Bole International Airport, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 19, 2021.

Indonesia in the BRICS: What It Means for Global Health

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Just over a year after Indonesia joined the BRICS, the nation is still determining its place in the bloc's health-cooperation dynamics

The Indonesian flag flies as people, wearing protective face coverings, wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine dose at Pakansari Stadium, in Bogor, Indonesia, on August 14, 2021.

Women in Leadership: Global Health's Missing Dose

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Women in health leadership bring essential perspectives to challenges long ignored by hierarchies dominated by men

Women attend the observance of the International Women's Day 2024, at the United Nations in New York, on March 8, 2024.

The Global Health Reform Debate's Dangerous Blindspot

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Unitaid's executive director compels countries to consider how the future global health system ensures equitable access to innovation

A worker displays a plastic test cassette for HIV 1/2 at Codix Bio production plant where HIV and Malaria test kits are locally produced, as it aims to fill the gap left by U.S. funding cuts to USAID, in Iperu-Remo in Ogun State, Nigeria, on June 18, 2025.

What $50 Billion for U.S. Foreign Affairs Changes for Global Health

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PEPFAR's former chief of staff describes how new legislation marks a turning point for U.S. foreign assistance

A Service Yezu Mwiza nurse hands medication to an HIV patient, who is also suffering from malaria, at her home, in Gatumba, Burundi, on April 19, 2013.

One Year Post-USAID, Global Health Funding Stuck in Limbo

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End-of-year estimates convey how much global health funding changed in 2025

A map of where the United States cut health aid in 2025.

Feeding Dignity: A 2026 Blueprint for Food Aid in a Divided World

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From Sudan to the U.S. farm belt, hunger is rising not from scarcity but political disinvestment

A Sudanese displaced woman who was held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), cooks food at a camp for displaced people who fled from al-Fashir to Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on November 15, 2025.

China's Evolving Global Health Leadership

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China's global health ascendence offers alternatives for partnerships that differ from traditional, U.S.-dominated models

Women work in a laboratory of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech, developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, during a government-organized media tour, in Beijing, China, on September 24, 2020.

Transforming the Global Health Ecosystem for a Healthier World in 2026

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African health and finance officials, along with the former executive director of UNAIDS, offer 10 considerations for global health reform initiatives

Transforming the Global Health Ecosystem for a Healthier World in 2026

Repairing Global Health Security at the Humanitarian Frontline

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Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts

A nurse from Save the Children prepares vaccinations for internally displaced Somali children, in Baidoa, Somalia, on June 25, 2025.