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A close-up photo of an Ethiopian woman wearing a read head scarf with her hand held to her forehead. She fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray, in Hamdayet village near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala State, Sudan, on November 22, 2020.

The Devastating Use of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

by Caroline Kapp

Three new UN reports detail atrocities in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Ukraine

Gender

Plumes of black smoke rise up into the air behind a car as it passes the Lysychansk Oil Refinery after if was hit by a missile at Lysychansk, in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, on April 16, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Leaving Ukraine

by Susan K. Barnett

A story about helping people with disabilities escape the war in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an address where he says that Russian forces could use chemical weapons in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022 i

Governance

The World is Unprepared for the Unthinkable

by Brian McCloskey, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, David Heymann

A biological attack anywhere would have profound and far-reaching political, military, and health consequences

Cars are on fire after Russia's missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 10, 2022.

Governance

The Escalation of the Ukraine War and Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The war has entered a more dangerous phase with grim portents for health

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

Migration

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

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.

Governance

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