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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.”
Governance

Tracking Measles and the World's Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

by Allison Krugman

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

Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during the Global Fund's Eighth Replenishment Summit, on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 21, 2025.
Governance

The Future of Global Health: Themes and Thorny Questions

by Stephanie Psaki, Anya Hirschfeld, Annabelle Gallinek, Thomas J. Bollyky

An analysis of 67 reform proposals reveals a country-led and systems-focused vision for global health's next chapter, but questions remain on how to implement it

Governance

Ebola Recalls Why the U.S. Needs a Foreign Health Service

by Matthew D. Brown
Two children of an American Ebola patient look through a window at their father in the isolation ward, at the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, on May 21, 2026.
Governance

World Health Assembly Recap: Financial Crunch, Affected Mandates, and Future Leadership 

by Priti Patnaik
Delegates attend the 79th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 18, 2026.
Governance

Global Health Reform for Communities Beyond Institutions

by Eric Fleutelot
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.
Trade

Multilane Procurement Amid the America First Health Agenda

by Prashant Yadav
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.
Governance

Indonesia in the BRICS: What It Means for Global Health  

by Ivan Meidika Kurnia, Elizabeth Sarah Aryaputri
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.
Governance

Women in Leadership: Global Health's Missing Dose

by Saumya RamaRao, Apoorva Jadhav
Women attend the observance of the International Women's Day 2024, at the United Nations in New York, on March 8, 2024.
Governance

The Global Health Reform Debate's Dangerous Blindspot 

by Philippe Duneton
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.
Governance

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

by Jirair Ratevosian
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.
Governance

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

by Allison Krugman
A map of where the United States cut health aid in 2025.
Food

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

by Sabeeha Quereshi
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.