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Women pray in front of a house struck by a drone in El-Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, on January 12, 2026.

Sudan's Health Workers Adapt to Increasing Drone Attacks

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Health workers in El Fasher say escalating drone warfare spurs rapid medical innovation

The glass of the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) building is pockmarked by bullet holes, following a deadly shooting incident, in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 9, 2025.

The Formula: How to Protect Public Health Amid Rising Hostility

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How the public health community can counteract the growingly hostile rhetoric around science and medicine

The Discomfort of Working Ourselves Out of Global Health

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

The Discomfort of Working Ourselves Out of Global Health

The Doctors Who Return Home

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A death in Sudan's diaspora and a collapsed health system

The Doctors Who Return Home

The Double Threat of COVID-19 in Africa

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Deaths from health-care disruptions due to COVID-19 are almost certain to outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself

Education in Africa is being disrupted along with everything else—chickens here in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of COVID-19 in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, on August 28, 2020. Picture shows a large gaggle of chickens inside a classroom, clucking around. One stands atop an overturned bucket. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

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Africa's unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women's health in danger

A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Age in the Age of COVID-19

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Ageism and the opportunity to be different

A resident named Mrs. Oury reacts as her daughters wave behind a glass during a visit at "Les Figuiers" retirement home amid the coronavirus outbreak in Villeneuve-Loubet, France, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a woman from behind glass while two others stand with their backs to the camera looking in. They all have their hands up. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

What Happens When COVID-19 Ends?

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The pandemic has exposed cracks in our health-care systems, shortsightedness of human interests, and poor public policy

A man drives an auto-rickshaw depicting the coronavirus to create awareness about staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19—in Chennai, India, on April 23, 2020. The image shows a vehicle painted red and covered with crown spikes reminiscent of the virus, which appear to be made of paper mache. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar

Coronavirus in Zimbabwe

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The country is facing an unprecedented public health catastrophe—and action is required to prevent more needless deaths

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa gives a speech at the Heroes' Day Commemoration in Harare, Zimbabwe, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on August 10, 2020. GETTY IMAGES/Wanda/Xinhua

Coronavirus in Toronto—Lessons Lost on a Second SARS

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The city's COVID-19 response is strongly informed by the experience of the earlier outbreak—but by no means exceptional

Bird's eye view: visitors take in a panoramic scene of the city of Toronto, Canada, from the 553 meters (1815 feet) high CN Tower, which just reopened after coronavirus restrictions on July 15, 2020. The photo shows a woman wearing a mask looking out from the skyview of the tall building with the Toronto cityscape beneath her. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

We Need a Greater Commitment to Community Health

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Community health care should be enshrined in national and local budgets, similar to education and other health spending

A call for funding community health alongside other types of health care—like the nurses who staff the national hospital in Nairobi, Kenya seen here during the coronavirus outbreak on May 28, 2020. The photo shows a field of nurses exercising in a field. REUTERS

Caring for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Afghanistan

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Health workers can treat, speak up for, seek justice for, and empower survivors of gender-based violence

Anisa Mangal on May 14, 2019 holds a photo of her daughter Mena Mangal, an Afghan journalist, parliamentary adviser, and advocate of women's rights who was killed last year in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture shows the mother stermly looking at the camera holding a photo of her daughter. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail