Interviews

Our editorial team sits down with the voices shaping global health today

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Governance
outbreaks continue in Shanghai, China, December 9, 2022.

Over One Million Projected COVID Deaths in China

IHME's Ali Mokdad breaks down what that means

Governance
A close-up photo of a hand in a black medical glove shows Dr. Mayank Amin preparing a Moderna COVID booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2022.

Is It the End of COVID-19 as We Know it?

IHME Director Christopher Murray weighs in on the state of the pandemic, the new omicron vaccine, and flu season

A life-size cutot of Professor Aurejus Veryga is used to block the path to buying alcohol in a supermarket during hours when alcohol sales are prohibited, in Lithuania, on January 7, 2019..​
Governance

Reducing Alcohol-Related Deaths in Lithuania

How the country is cutting down on deaths related to excess drinking

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Governance

Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Up 1,000 Percent in Myanmar

Civil conflict and disease compound in the eastern border regions

Bar Manager Nicolas de Soto mixes a Calvados-based cocktail at ECC in Chinatown, London December 3, 2010.
Governance

Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

A woman pours alcohol from the bottle into her mouth at the Far Hills Race Day at Moorland Farms in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 17, 2015.
Food

Alcohol in Excess

How the World Health Organization plans to curb excess drinking across countries

Mayor Chilando Chitangala wears a light blue tweed blazer and sitesin a black desk chair in her office
Urbanization

Road Safety in Lusaka

Mayor Chilando Chitangala on road safety, public health, and her political ambitions

Jill Biden listens as Namibia's first lady Monica Geingos speaks, at a conversation with spouses of leaders attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2022.
Gender

Women Leaders in Global Health

Three women discuss why they chose a career in global health and what inspired them to become leaders

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 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

helene gayle with children in kenya
Governance

Choosing to Make a Change

Dr. Helene Gayle on her trailblazing career and the questions she still ponders

Former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela—wearing a white t-shirt with HIV POSITIVE in purple printed on the front—visits the township of Khayelitsha in Western Cape, South Africa. Photo by Media24/Gallo Images/Getty Images
Governance

In South Africa, Much More Than an Investment in HIV

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, UNAIDS special ambassador for adolescents and HIV, on "building one house" for health

Dozens of seagulls swoop down to grab food from people in a small boat on the Yamuna River, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, on November 18, 2021.
Environment

India's Pollution Problem

India's former secretary for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare talks smog and health

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Governance

Tremendous Progress in U.S. Children Born With HIV Shadows Work Needed Globally

An interview with global pediatric HIV/AIDS physician Heather Haq