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Asmita Koladiya, a health-care worker, carrying her eight-month-old daughter, gives a dose of vaccine against COVID-19 to a man in Lodhida village, in Gujarat, India, on February 2, 2022.

Women Are Transforming Health in Rural Villages in India

by Mukteshwari Bosco, Maya Welch, Gayathri Prashanth

Community health "entrepreneurs" prevent disease, strengthen social safety nets, and improve well-being

Aging
Elderly people stand in a row and stretch out their arms as they exercise at a public park in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 9, 2018.

The Rising Price of Dementia

by Paola Pedroza

As the number of people with dementia grows, families need access to affordable care

A woman in an orange dress carries a water jar after collecting water from a common water tap. In the background are other women in colorful garments who don't have direct access to water at home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 21, 2022.
Gender

The Gender Pay Gap Is Wider Than You Thought

by Marilyn Waring

Making women's unpaid care work count toward an economy for health

a health worker, puts on a protective face mask as she gets ready to travel
Poverty

On the Front Lines with India's COVID-19 Warriors

by Baldeep K. Dhaliwal, Anita Shet

Protecting community health workers will help the vast nation ride out future waves

A medical worker passes by street art featuring a frontline worker in a mask outside a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, on October 27, 2020.
Governance

Not Your Canaries in the Coal Mine

by Sonya Stokes, Kavita Patel

New CDC guidelines fail to protect frontline workers from COVID-19

A protester raises a #MeToo sign during a rally against harassment at Shinjuku shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan on April 28, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Gender

#TimesUp on Violence and Sexual Harassment Against Women in Health Professions

by Roopa Dhatt, Jessica Beagley, Sandra Oyarzo Torres, Amina Jama

This week marks the first international treaty to end workplace harassment

A nurse invites people to the booths to receive AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Belgrade, Serbia, March 25, 2021
Governance

Nurses Will Lead Health-Care Teams Out of the Pandemic

by Laura Hoemeke, Melissa T. Ojemeni, Comrade Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun, Natalie Sheneman

Interprofessional collaboration will play an important role in mitigating the global health workforce crisis

A health worker holds a girl to give her polio vaccination drops during a house-to-house anti-polio vaccination campaign in Yemen's capital Sanaa, April 12, 2016.
Governance

Without Community Health Workers, the Global COVID-19 Response Could Fail

by Carey Westgate, Ash Rogers, Jessica Cook, Stella Luk, Daniel Palazuelos, Mandy Folse, Sarah Lindsay, Pauline Keronyai, Amanda Yembrick, Madeleine Ballard

Community health workers have played a vital role in global health efforts

Healthcare workers walk through Mount Sinai Hospital as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in New York, U.S., April 5, 2020.
Urbanization

One Year From the Front Lines of COVID-19 in New York City

by Sonya Stokes

Frontline providers found a solution to communication breakdown during the pandemic: talking to each other

An intubated patient tries to gesture at a medical worker holding his hand at the Sotiria hospital ICU during the coronavirus outbreak, in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2020. Picture shows the hand of a patient in a hospital bed being held by the blue-gloved hand of a medical worker. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis
Poverty

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

by Craig D. McClain, Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman

Expanding access to surgery and anesthesia globally would be a win–win for health security and universal health coverage

They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Governance

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai Ngo , Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song

The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity

Maasai elders, wearing traditional clothes and facemasks due to coronavirus, gather within the Orboma Manyatta in Sekenani, near the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, on August 10, 2020. This is a striking photo that shows a number of the elders in brightly colored reddish clothing on a clear day against a backdrop of what appears to be a village. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Governance

In Africa’s COVID-19 Response, Strive, Don’t Settle

by Vanessa Kerry

Broad and equitable health systems could finally be within reach for African countries—closer than the world realizes

Beds at a temporary field hospital set up in a sports complex by Medicines Sans Frontieres during the coronavirus outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, on July 21, 2020. The photo shows a large gymnasium with lots of beds in rows. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Poverty

Health-Systems Strengthening in the Age of COVID-19

by Angela E. Micah, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Joseph L. Dieleman

As the pandemic stresses many health-systems to their breaking point, it’s more important than ever to bolster them now

A boy stand in front of a graffiti promoting the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a powerful photo of a young boy walking in front of a sinister depiction of the virus with a face that appears to be sneeringly looking at the boy. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Governance

The Unpaid Debt of Underinvestment in Public Health

by Sonak D. Pastakia, James Akiruga Amisi, Tina Tran, David Mazza

Limited progress on the social determinants of health has left populations in Kenya and elsewhere vulnerable to COVID-19