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A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

by Titiporn Tuangratananon, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Swee Kheng Khor

National progress on migrant health is expansive, effective, and has helped Thailand avoid the worst of the coronavirus

Poverty
Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march through central London on July 10, 2016, during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the United States. The photo shows a huge crowd with people facing the camera with homemade signs, fists raised, and shouting slogans. AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas via Getty Images

What Global Health Can Learn From Black Lives Matter

by Sylvia Sax

Shifting power from distant, donor-country elites to local aid recipients will lead to stronger global health systems

A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Migration

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

by Titiporn Tuangratananon, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Swee Kheng Khor

National progress on migrant health is expansive, effective, and has helped Thailand avoid the worst of the coronavirus

Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march through central London on July 10, 2016, during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the United States. The photo shows a huge crowd with people facing the camera with homemade signs, fists raised, and shouting slogans. AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas via Getty Images
Poverty

What Global Health Can Learn From Black Lives Matter

by Sylvia Sax

Shifting power from distant, donor-country elites to local aid recipients will lead to stronger global health systems

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

Container ship RDO Concord sails through the Suez Canal on November 17, 2019. The picture places the viewer in the wake of a massive freighter stacked high with metal shipping containers as a smaller patrol-type boat passes in the foreground. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Trade

Six Proactive Steps in a Smart Trade Approach to Fighting COVID-19

by Jennifer A. Hillman

Tariffs, subsidies, waivers, licensure, and what a trade agenda to support the fight against coronavirus might look like