Non-Communicable Diseases

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Migration
An Syrian woman with a serious expression on her face dressed in dark colors holds a child who is partially obscured by a bright orange scarf draped over his head. On either side of her, are young men in winter coats walking with her through a desert landscape

Diabetes, Hypertension, and Heart Disease Don’t Stop for War

by Adrianna Murphy, Éimhín Ansbro

During humanitarian crises, chronic diseases become more complicated

Poverty
a girl in a white t shirt sits next her mom wearing a black shirt on a tattered couch

A Lifelong Struggle With Sickle Cell Disease

by Azalea Thomson, Nicholas J. Kassebaum

The most common inherited disease worldwide is often ignored by health-care providers and policymakers

Villagers ride a motorcycle in a haze hit Dumai, in Indonesia's Riau provinc
Governance

Noncommunicable Diseases and Foreign Policy on Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The pandemic and climate change will deepen foreign policy disinterest in NCDs

As the sun sets, a boy prepares to jump off a rock into the waters of the Osman Sagar Lake near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad May 29, 2011.
Governance

Antibiotic Resistance is a Smoldering Crisis

by Kevin Ikuta, Lucien Swetschinski, Mohsen Naghavi, Chieh Han, Katherine Leach-Kemon

More than 1.2 million people across the globe died of antibiotic resistant superbugs in 2019

People get their eyes tested at a free eye-care camp, in Mumbai, India, on December 6, 2014.
Aging

Putting Vision Loss and Aging into Focus

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Jaimie Steinmetz

Addressing high blood sugar can reduce vision loss in older adults

Lea KIlenga Masamo
Poverty

Kenya's Greatest Sickle Cell Disease Advocate

Lea Kilenga Masamo is destigmatizing a rare genetic condition to improve care for forgotten patients

Students wear face masks during a health-care action rally dedicated to COVID-19 in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on February 3, 2020
Governance

Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data

by Lauren A. Do, Patricia G. Synnott, Siyu Ma, Daniel A. Ollendorf

A call to re-shape the way policymakers make health decisions by getting the most cost-effective priorities straight

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Governance

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

Women sit as they prepare for screenings during the breast cancer prevention campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on October 12, 2019. Image shows a row of several women wearing colorful clothes. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
Aging

The Growing Cancer Threat in Africa

by Thomas J. Bollyky

Cancer mortality is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, where the needed health care infrastructure is still lacking