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Medical staff inspect the damage at an impact site, following a missile strike from Iran on Israel, at Soroka Medical Center, in Beersheba, Israel, on June 19, 2025.

Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime?

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Feroze Sidhwa

Global attacks on hospitals and health care have become more frequent, but perpetrators have enjoyed near total impunity

Governance
Bar chart titled “Millions Displaced In and Out of Syria,” displays Syrian displacement from 2011 to 2024, broken into three categories: refugees (light blue), asylum seekers (thin yellow band), and internally displaced persons (dark blue). Displacement surged after the Arab Spring protests reached Syria in March 2011, with annual totals exceeding 14 million by 2024. Internally displaced persons consistently represent the largest group throughout the period. Source: Think Global Health

Authoritarianism and the Genetics of Trauma

by Diana Rayes

A Syrian American global health scholar reflects on generations of trauma after decades of Assad dictatorship

A man watches a movie on his phone, in Delhi, India, on November 16, 2016.
Gender

Netflix's Adolescence: Social Change Through Edutainment

by Amber Peterman, Alessandra Guedes, Christine Kolbe-Stuart

The evidence behind the power of educational entertainment to prevent violence against women and children

A member of the Navy carries electoral material out to a school that is being used a polling station ahead of the presidential election, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on February 8, 2025.
Governance

Violence Shadows Ecuador's Presidential Election

by Andersson Boscán

The drug trade has deepened the security crisis in Ecuador, which will elect a new leader on April 13

A bar chart titled 'Disaster in Democratic Republic of Congo' displaying fatalities related to conflict from April 2024 to January 2025. The chart differentiates between M23-involved fatalities and other conflict-related fatalities. A significant spike in fatalities is marked in late January 2025, corresponding to the seizure of Goma by M23 rebels on January 26, 2025. The source is 'Think Global Health.
Poverty

DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion

by Allison Krugman

Aid workers and health experts recount the growing humanitarian crisis amid conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo

A mother and her daughter carry grain to their home in rural Cusco, Peru, on July 21, 2022
Gender

Intimate Partner Violence in Peru

by Anya Hirschfeld

The country's rates of intimate partner violence are twice the global average

A doctor wears a ribbon and an India map badge on his shirt, during a protest rally demanding justice following the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, August 16, 2024.
Urbanization

What's Driving Violence Against Health Workers in India

by Christianez Ratna Kiruba

An attack against health-care workers is reported almost every other week

A map of the United States showing the locations of gun-related deaths over the course of a month, approximately 1,200 deaths. The map uses red circles to represent incidents, with the size indicating the number of victims killed, ranging from one to four. Specific locations of mass shootings are highlighted with larger circles and labeled. The distribution of incidents is concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of the United States, with fewer in the western states.
Urbanization

The United States Can't Arrest Its Way Out of Gun Violence

by Caroline Nobo

Communities, hospitals, and prosecutors can play valuable roles in curbing gun violence

A line graph titled 'Gun Violence Leads U.S. Childhood Deaths' compares deaths by firearms and motor vehicle accidents among children and adolescents in the United States from 2018 to 2022. The vertical axis shows the number of deaths, ranging from 3,200 to 4,400. Firearm deaths, represented by a red line, surpass motor vehicle accident deaths, represented by a blue line, beginning around 2020. In 2022, firearms killed 4,608 children.
Governance

Solutions to U.S. Gun Violence Hinge on Election

by Sarah Muthler

Physicians are working to improve patient safety education but rely on research funding that is in doubt

A community health worker evaluates a baby for malnutrition.
Governance

Mali Prioritizes Child Survival During Armed Conflict

by Fatoumata Nafo, Ari Johnson

Improving access to free health care decreased child mortality by 63% over three years

Monarch butterflies rest on the ground at the Sierra Chincua butterfly sanctuary.
Environment

Mexico's Shared Fate in the Absence of Trees

by Angelica F. Recierdo

Increased violence and illegal deforestation of Mexico's Michoacán risks environmental and human health

Marie Marcelle Deschamps is seen with a group of children in Haiti, in 2021.
Poverty

Why I Stay: Haiti's Fight for Health Care

by Marie-Marcelle Deschamps

GHESKIO, a long-standing health organization, continues the battle to provide care amid disasters and violence in Haiti

Students create a human chain in memory of victims of the shooting at Prague University.
Governance

Tragedy in Prague Ignites Debate on Gun Control

by Ana Braun

The struggle between individual rights and public safety continues amid the mass shooting in the Czech Republic

A family member holds a photograph of Rosivel Elisabeth Grande in Quezaltepeque, Honduras, on July 2, 2013. Grande was killed by an unidentified man who shot her five times when she was going to work
Gender

When Love Becomes Violence

Countries in Central America should build resilient institutions capable of implementing programs that support women