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Member of a World Health Organization team is looking at destroyed school.

U.S. Aid Package Leaves Ukraine Vulnerable to Public Health Crisis

by Stephen Langel

Public health experts say the heightened conflict is making outbreaks more likely in Ukraine and elsewhere

Governance
Health-care Attacks in Myanmar

In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground

by Allison Krugman

Three years after a military coup, attacks against health care in Myanmar have reached a tipping point

A damaged home is seen after it was hit by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, in Sderot, southern Israel, October 17, 2023.
Governance

Shockwaves From the Israel-Hamas War Threaten Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The conflict unleashes a cascade of bad consequences for global health endeavors

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan rings the Peace Bell at the 61st General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 21, 2006.
Governance

There Is No Universal Health Care Without Universal Peace

by Benedetta Armocida, Maja Pašović

The symbiosis of peace and public health

Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion stand at attention during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013,
Governance

How a Heavily Armed Country Cut Gun Suicide

Inside Israel’s suicide prevention programs

Senior Airman Julianne Showalter/USAF/Handout via REUTERS
Environment

Waste-to-Energy for U.S. Military Bases

by Ada Baser

A new technology that could replace burn pits in U.S. overseas military bases

Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman (L) and Mohamed Eisa at a conference in Khartoum, February 2023.
Governance

The Doctors Who Return Home

by Chen Chen

A death in Sudan’s diaspora and a collapsed health system

REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Governance

International Cooperation and the War Against Ukraine

by Liana Fix, Caroline Kapp

The war in Ukraine is hampering solutions on global issues and intensifying cooperation among geopolitical alliances

A poster of an infant reading Estoy Buscando A Mi Familia, or "I’m looking for my family"
Migration

Guatemala’s Forgotten Voices

Children who were fraudulently adopted share their stories

a child in an orange puffer jacket pushes their friend on a wooden swing in the snow
Migration

The War in Ukraine Has Harmed Children

by Caroline Kapp

Russia’s war is rooted in concepts of identity and nationality

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.
Governance

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

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
Gender

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

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