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Urbanization
A woman stands at the balcony of her house which will be demolished to build new apartments in downtown Shanghai, China, on December 1, 2010.

Pandemic Urbanism

by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil

Emerging infectious disease on a planet of cities

Governance
Pandemic prevention workers in protective suits walk in a street as COVID-19 outbreaks continue in Beijing, China, on December 4, 2022.

Rethinking Financial Estimates for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

by Minahil Shahid, Gavin Yamey

Current estimates do not share a standardized methodology for predicting the costs or scope of PPR

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Belgium's Minister of Development Cooperation Meryame Kitir visit a WHO-backed mRNA vaccine hub, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Shelley Christians
Governance

Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness at the Country Level

by Tom Frieden, Chen Chen, Janneth Mghamba, Mohammed Lamorde

Health security approaches and challenges

A worker disinfects a dining room at a sanitary supplies factory, amid growing fears over the spread of COVID-19, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on May 16, 2022.
Governance

Avoiding Health Spending Panic and Neglect

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

The importance of maintaining momentum in health spending

a red ribbon marks World AIDS Day on the North Portico of the White House
Governance

PEPFAR's Twentieth Anniversary Might Be Its Last

by Emily Bass

Proposed changes to the mold-breaking program could break it for good

Indonesian President Joko Widodo welcomes U.S. President Joe Biden on the second day of the G20 Indonesia Summit events at the Ngurah Rai Forest Park, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on November 16, 2022.
Governance

At Bali, the G20 Confronts Multidimensional Crises with Empty Diplomatic Rhetoric

by David P. Fidler

The summit revealed the G20's and global health's vulnerabilities in a geopolitical world

A giant red, white, and blue lit-up U.S. flag can be seen behind a person wearing a mask while walking in Times Square after the CDC announced new guidelines regarding outdoor mask wearing and vaccination during the COVID outbreak in New York City, New York, on April 27, 2021.
Governance

The United States Needs a Foreign Health Service

by Matthew Brown

Advancing American interests in global health requires transforming U.S. health diplomacy

A man runs in Riverside Park during a winter storm on the upper west side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, on February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Governance

What to Expect This Winter

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Our questions about the "tripledemic"—COVID-19, flu, and RSV—are answered by public health expert Ali H. Mokdad

REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Governance

Africa: Ready to Respond

by Shingai Machingaidze, Gerald Chirinda

The changing story of a vulnerable continent better prepared to respond to pandemics

A close-up photo of a hand in a black medical glove shows Dr. Mayank Amin preparing a Moderna COVID booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2022.
Governance

Is It the End of COVID-19 as We Know it?

IHME Director Christopher Murray weighs in on the state of the pandemic, the new omicron vaccine, and flu season

A worker assembles parts of a COVID-19 test kit made by Visby Medical at the kit maker's lab in San Jose, California, U.S., August 28, 2020.
Governance

The United States COVID-19 Testing Debacle

by Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Christina Potter

Understanding why the U.S. response to COVID-19 was marred by challenges

a young man wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and a blue surgical face mask, sits on a plastic chair outside a mobile TB testing clinic
Governance

Why the Global Fund Is Important to U.S. Foreign Policy

by Mark P. Lagon

The Global Fund is pivotal to tackling current pandemics and emerging threats

A woman wearing a black blouse and slacks is pictured walking down a cleared pathway in a lush, green jungle in Fiji.
Environment

From Scalpels to Security

by Callum Forbes, Abbie Naus, Elizabeth McLeod, Craig D. McClain

Examining the intersection of global surgery, climate change, and human security

Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-chung appears wearing a blue surgical face maskseated in front of orange banners that read "China blocks Taiwan to join WHO" at a new conference, in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 15, 2020
Governance

Visibly Invisible: Taiwan and Global Health

by Tsung Ling Lee, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai

The legacy of the past and practices of the present, dictate whose voices are heard