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Trade
A woman walks past a coronavirus (COVID-19) themed mural on a street in Mumbai, India, March 28, 2023.

COVID-19 Lessons, Free Trade and Industrial Politics: The Globalization Mismatch

by Axel R. Pries

Why a new approach to international cooperation and globalization should be developed

Gender
Jill Biden listens as Namibia's first lady Monica Geingos speaks, at a conversation with spouses of leaders attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2022.

Women Leaders in Global Health

Three women discuss why they chose a career in global health and what inspired them to become leaders

REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
Governance

Team Europe Takes on Global Health

by Ilona Kickbusch

A new and ambitious strategy

A student washes her hands after clean up at a school in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in Abuja, Nigeria on March 20, 2020. The photo shows a pair of hands actively lathering under a water tap against a blue background. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Poverty

Where WASH Figures in the COVID-19 Fight

by Katherine E. Bliss, Tanvi Nagpal

Hard-sought health security in sub-Saharan Africa should build on WASH programs, which are already proven to save lives

A hand pump provides access to water in the village of Lal Bux Lund in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 8, 2011, but 1 in 4 health facilities around the world lack basic water services. The picture shows two girls, one pumping, the other washing, and both laughing. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Urbanization

Getting WASH into Health Care Facilities: An Urgent Global Health Need

by John Simon, Susan K. Barnett

Will the UN’s prioritization of clean water, sanitation and hand washing in health care facilities finally breed action?

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