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Students hold a giant Indian national flag with green, white and orange stripes, during celebrations commemorating 75 years of India's Independence, in Ahmedabad, India, August 8, 2022.

Monkeypox in India—Facing the World's Latest Health Threat

by Aatmika Nair, Siddhesh Zadey

Barely back on its feet from COVID-19, India eyes monkeypox with trepidation

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A man with gray hair and thick-rimmed glasses wearing a surgical facemask is vaccinated against monkeypox by a female nurse with long b;ack hair wearing a lab coat

The Monkeypox Outbreak and Foreign Policy

by David P. Fidler

The outbreak has limited implications for U.S. foreign policy on global health

A female delegate wearing a long sleeved black dress a blue surgical mask looks at a 30-foot sculpture made out of plastic bottles resembling a faucet, outside the UN Environment Programme Headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya
Environment

The Emerging Health Crisis of Microplastic Debris

by Dick Vethaak, Concepción Martínez-Gómez

Microplastics are everywhere, including our bodies

A woman in a white and black t-shirt wears a face mask uses a handheld fan as she walks on a street on a hot day, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China July 19, 2022. A colorful white, green, pink and yellow mural is pictured in the background.
Governance

Omicron BA.5: What to Know About COVID-19's Latest, More Contagious Variant

Public health expert Ali H. Mokdad answers our COVID questions this week 

Pauline Muchina, of American Friends Service Committee, and activists call on the EU to end opposition to a COVID-19 waiver of WTO intellectual property barriers, in Washington, DC, June 24, 2021.
Trade

A New and Weak WTO Deal on TRIPS is Not Fit for Purpose

by Fatima Hassan

An ineffective multilateralism

A man adjusts a face mask and is wearing a black shirt that reads "TRIPS WAIVER NOW!" He stands in front of rows of empty chairs.
Trade

Sharpening the Tools in the Pandemic-Ending Toolbox

by Bryan Mercurio

After nearly two years of negotiation, the WTO makes a decision about COVID-19 vaccine production and access

A blue, purple, and yellow skylight hovers above Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates his re-election during the 75th World Health Assembly at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2022.
Governance

At Long Last, Member States Agree to Fix the World Health Organization's Financing Problem

by Alexandra Finch, Kevin A. Klock, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin

Here's what needs to happen next

A close-up photo of the face of Hu Hushen, a 78-year-old former miner, who breathes with the help of extra oxygen at Yangjia Hospital in Zhejiang Province, China, on October 19, 2015.
Environment

China's Attack on a Top Industrial Health Hazard

by Yaming You

How China is bringing the devastating lung disease pneumoconiosis to its knees

A young man in a white shirt wearing a blue surgical mask hugs his brother, wearing navy blue, as he wails mourning the loss of his father from COVID-19
Governance

Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?

by Christopher Troeger

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

people use computers at an internet cafe after internet services were restored following a four-day outage
Governance

Global Health and the Declaration for the Future of the Internet

by David P. Fidler

The declaration takes geopolitical and ideological stands that raise questions for global health

A notice about the shortage of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine supplies is posted at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India, on April 8, 2021.
Governance

Vaccine Equity: Changing the Status Quo

by Shashika Bandara

High-income countries need to take responsibility for COVID failures and commit to a realignment of global structures

While helping with the response to the Aug. 14, 2021, earthquake, Dr. Paul Farmer gives a lecture on the 2010 Haiti earthquake and speaks with clinicians at Hospital University de Mirebalais.
Poverty

Paul Farmer Believed Global Health and Health Equity Were About Teamwork

by Michele Barry

The director of Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health remembers her friend's unwavering mission

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits an injured Ukrainian serviceman at a military hospital, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 13, 2022.
Governance

Four Failures and an Invasion

by David P. Fidler

Comparing responses to COVID-19 and the Ukraine war points to a difficult future for global health

Dr. Liz Wangia lets water from a waterfall trickle from her hand in Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Governance

Are Leaders Born or Created?

by Liz Wangia

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