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The World Health Organization headquarters is seen in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 28, 2025.
Governance

Reforming WHO: Five Considerations for the Next Director General

by Anders Nordström

The World Health Organization's next chapter could become more focused, technically authoritative, and strategically disciplined through strategic reforms

A map titled "Where the 2026 Ebola Outbreak is Spreading" shows confirmed and suspected cases of Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda as of June 1, 2026. Affected regions are shaded in salmon/orange-red, and affected cities are marked with black dots. Ituri Province in northeastern DRC is labeled as having seen the most cases and is the largest highlighted region. Additional affected areas in DRC include militia-controlled Goma in North Kivu and areas near Bukavu in South Kivu. In Uganda, Kampala is marked as having confirmed nine cases. A small inset map shows the location of the outbreak region within the broader African continent. Source: Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Governance

Charting Ebola Responses: How 2026 Stacks Up After Aid Cuts

by Stephanie Psaki, Anya Hirschfeld, Allison Krugman

An Ebola outbreak circulating undetected for weeks or months is a collective failure of global health security, regardless of cause

Governance

Life With Less PEPFAR: The First 100 Days in Tanzania and Uganda

by Emily Bass
Life With Less PEPFAR: The First 100 Days in Tanzania and Uganda
Poverty

Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda

by Emile Dawisha
Preserving Refugee Health in Uganda
Governance

Russia's Growing Footprint on the African Health Landscape

by Aloysius Ssennyonjo, Eric Ssegujja
Russia's Growing Footprint on the African Health Landscape
Governance

Uganda Spots Anthrax Outbreak Early Via Enhanced Situational Awareness

by Amanda McClelland
Uganda Spots Anthrax Outbreak Early Via Enhanced Situational Awareness
Poverty

Ebola in Uganda

by Mary Brophy Marcus
Ebola in Uganda
Poverty

Who Gets What and Why?

by Héctor Castro
People at a coronavirus testing center on July 2, 2020 in Mugda Medical College in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where half of the medical equipment in public health facilities goes unused according to the authors. The photo shows a crowd of people wearing masks waiting on line in chairs while a health worker in full protective gear walks beside them. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Aging

Mothers, Children, and the Terrible Choice Between COVID-19 and Other Infections

by Chip Lyons, Chris Collins
Going out in a storm is a tough choice. Here a woman braves a sandstorm in Timbuktu, Mali, on July 29, 2013. Far worse is the decision many face today whether to brave COVID-19 for other health care. The photo shows a woman with a baby on her back walking through a desert. The wind is blowing strongly, as evidenced by the billowing cloth on their heads. REUTERS/Joe Penney
Governance

What We Ask About Coronavirus in Africa

by Morine Amutorine, Elaine O. Nsoesie
A boy reads the Koran after morning prayers with his family during the holy month of Ramadan, as Egypt ramps up efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Cairo, Egypt, on April 26, 2020. Picture shows the boy reading with his shadow cast on the wall behind him. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Urbanization

Coronavirus in East Africa

by Moses Tetui
A man coughs as children walk past roadside, during the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. This is a powerful image of two children looking at a man who is coughing into his had with his head turned. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Governance

Expertise, Coronavirus, and the New Normal

by Charles Ebikeme
“Nobody knows anything,” said Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman, who wrote the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross. The photo is an original movie poster of the movie with the words across the bottom, "Not that it matters, but most of it is true." GETTY Images/Movie Poster Image Art