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Migration

An Afghan man rides a bicycle on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 30, 2015.

The Life of a Foreign Aid Practitioner

by Caroline Kantis

A review of "Bike Riding in Kabul," Jamie Bowman's unexpectedly humorous memoir of life as a foreign aid worker

Governance

A large yellow biohazard sign on the wall at the bio-containment facility at Spiez Laboratory, available to WHO as a repository for COVID viruses and other pathogens with pandemic potential, in Spiez, Switzerland, June 8, 2022.

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention's Contributions to Global Health Security

by Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, Matthew Shearer, Gigi Kwik Gronvall

Countering Russian disinformation creates opportunities to enhance the BWC's role against dangerous pathogens

Health workers, two male and one female, wear red emergency outfits, stethoscopes, and bullet-proof vests as they pose beside their yellow ambulance at a hospital in Kharkiv.

Governance

War-Proofing Ukraine's Health System

An interview with Ukraine's former Deputy Minister of Health Pavlo Kovtoniuk

Concrete nuclear reactor towers bellowing pillars of white smoke stand against a blue sky. In the foreground a bee flits between bright yellow flowers atop leafy green stems

Environment

Fallout

by Lillian Posner

A photographic view of the fallout from past nuclear incidents for health

A Russian soldier in a camouflage uniform bearing the Russian flag and a cloth face covering stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant whose towers stand surrounded by a fog and a barbed wire against a blue sky.

Governance

Russian Roulette at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

by Lillian Posner

How Russia's militarization of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant threatens human health

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

Migration

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

by Adrianna Murphy, Éimhín Ansbro

During humanitarian crises, chronic diseases become more complicated

A baby in a blue coat plays with an artificial yellow sunflower. The colors evoke the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.

Food

Breastfeeding Babies During War

by Allison Daniel

Parents from Ukraine and other countries in crisis struggle to breastfeed and formula feed their children

A close up image of a field of winter wheat growing outside Bashtanka, in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, on June 9, 2022

Food

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

How history—and future crops—were lost when Russia attacked a scientific warehouse for valuable plants and seeds

Governance

The World Health Assembly Takes Steps Toward Global Health Reforms

by David P. Fidler

Countries began to reshape global health governance but left themselves room to change course

Refugees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol arrive at a registration and humanitarian aid center for internally displaced people amid Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on May 8, 2022.

Migration

The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Providing Health Care in Ukraine's Conflict Zone

by Anthony Fong

A Canadian physician reflects on his recent emergency medicine stint along the Ukrainian-Polish border

Russian president Vladimir Putin stands in front of a podium that says "End TB" with a bored expression on his face.

Governance

Will the WHO Sideline Russia Over Ukraine?

by Lillian Posner

Not if Russia withdraws first

Governance

U.S. War Aims, Health, and the Armed Conflict in Ukraine

by David P. Fidler

Ambitious U.S. objectives in the war will affect health on Ukrainian battlefields and in nations beyond

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the 52nd annual Conference on the Americas luncheon at the State Department in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2022

Governance

The Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy on Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The transformation of American politics threatens foreign policy engagement on global health

An activist of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, a non-governmental group, holds an empty package of the drug Aluvia, as she takes part in a rally in front of the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers building in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 1, 2015.

Governance

War Threatens Ukraine's Progress Curbing HIV/AIDS

by Spencer Feingold

Russia's invasion is keeping lifesaving medication out of the hands of Ukrainians living with HIV