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Medical staff inspect the damage at an impact site, following a missile strike from Iran on Israel, at Soroka Medical Center, in Beersheba, Israel, on June 19, 2025.

Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime?

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Feroze Sidhwa

Global attacks on hospitals and health care have become more frequent, but perpetrators have enjoyed near total impunity

Governance
Patients wait for treatment as a USAID-funded health awareness poster hangs behind them, at the Hossainpur Upazila Health Complex, in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh.

The Discomfort of Working Ourselves Out of Global Health

by Girija Sankar

After 24 years, a public health worker grapples with questions of power, inequity, and purpose in global health

In Uganda’s Bidibidi refugee settlement, a Village Health Team member conducts an in-home health visit to a refugee mother and child.
Poverty

Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda

by Emile Dawisha

Amid U.S. funding cuts, Uganda works to protect its rapidly growing refugee population from deadly diseases

A member of the Navy carries electoral material out to a school that is being used a polling station ahead of the presidential election, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on February 8, 2025.
Governance

Violence Shadows Ecuador's Presidential Election

by Andersson Boscán

The drug trade has deepened the security crisis in Ecuador, which will elect a new leader on April 13

A child sits as a nurse prepares to dispense antiretroviral ARV drugs used to prevent HIV from replicating, at the Nyumbani Children's Home, Nairobi, Kenya, on February 12, 2025.
Governance

Life After USAID: Africa's Development, Education, and Health Care

by Faraan Rahim, Sofia DiFulvio, Julian T. Hertz, Banda Khalifa, Ntuli A. Kapologwe

Alternative strategies to sustain progress on economic development, education investment, and disease responses

Chinese-language signage for COVID-19 vaccines sits outside of a pharmacy, New York City, New York, on February 12, 2023.
Migration

The United States Needs More Medical Interpreters

by Eunice Chung

Equitable access to interpretation services could help improve health outcomes for Chinese migrants

Bar chart illustrating the aging population in South Carolina from 2013 to 2023, focusing on the 65 to 74 age group. The chart highlights the significant growth in this demographic, with the population increasing from 439,093 in 2013 to 621,496 in 2023. The 65 to 74 age group is emphasized as having the greatest growth among other age ranges.
Aging

South Carolina Addresses the Geriatrician Gap

by Anika Nayak

The state is leading efforts to care for its aging population by recruiting elder-care specialists

An imprisoned member of street gang Mara 18 poses for a photograph at the Izalco prison.
Migration

Health Care: A Frontline Defense Against Human Trafficking

by Shadi Kourosh, Mark P. Lagon

Partnerships with the medical community can tap opportunities for intervention and public health data gathering

Patients wait in the emergency room of Klerksdorp Tshepong public district hospital.
Governance

South Africa's Medical Negligence Crisis

by Thabo Molelekwa

Understaffing and insufficient resources have led to poor quality care and a surge of medicolegal claims in South Africa

A woman carries her child as they stand at a payment counter.
Governance

Africa's Health Financing Gap

by Allison Krugman

Donor health funding is declining in sub-Saharan Africa, and domestic spending is not rising to cover the gaps

Nurses participate in a fitness program during the COVID-19 outbreak, within the Infectious Disease Unit grounds of the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Migration

Kenya's Health Worker Exodus: Brain Drain or Economic Opportunity?

by Joseph Maina

Kenyan health-care professionals continue to emigrate, presenting a mixed bag of fortunes for the country

Nicole Spencer, 24, a medical student who suffers from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), organizes her weekly medication.
Governance

Young Americans Prioritize Health Care in 2024 Election

by Anil Cacodcar

The chair of the Harvard Public Opinion Project explains why young Americans view health care as a top election issue

People walk in a flooded area in the Cavalhada neighborhood after heavy rains.
Environment

Brazil's Deadly Floods Expose Shortfalls in Disaster Preparedness

by Jill Langlois

A failure to create and implement policies for climate-related disasters left Brazil unprepared

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance stand on stage with their families.
Governance

Where Health Surfaced at the Republican National Convention

by Rachael Dziaba, Jordan Schwartz

The RNC projected a strategy on health matters that shied away from overtly supporting unpopular positions