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Mayor of Belo Horizonte, Gabriel Azevedo, sporting a grey t-shirt, rides a bike in front of tall trees at Praça da Liberdade, one of the most important touristic sites of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in July 2020.

In Brazil, a City Councilor from Belo Horizonte Has Big Plans

Gabriel Azevedo quotes de Tocqueville, owns a jazz bar, and rides a bike—he's the modern leader his hometown needs

Governance
An illustration from 1894 shows Dr. Edward Jenner administering the world's first smallpox vaccine.

Monkeypox Transmission Explained

David Pigott tracks the spread of diseases with outbreak potential—Ebola, Zika, COVID-19—so we asked him about monkeypox

A man wades through knee-deep water in his home, carrying damaged furniture in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, on September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
Environment

Puerto Rico—Still Waiting for Power After Hurricane Fiona

A fragile health system, vulnerable elderly, and food insecurity worry University of Puerto Rico's Carmen Vélez Vega

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

A woman with long dark hair in a light blue blouse and black mask searches for something in a black tote bag as she walks past a blue sign with orange letters reading "monkeypox vaccination area"
Governance

The Monkeypox Public Health Emergency

Health law expert Lindsay Wiley outlines the legal tools the U.S. government has to respond to monkeypox

A woman in a white and black t-shirt wears a face mask uses a handheld fan as she walks on a street on a hot day, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China July 19, 2022. A colorful white, green, pink and yellow mural is pictured in the background.
Governance

Omicron BA.5: What to Know About COVID-19's Latest, More Contagious Variant

Public health expert Ali H. Mokdad answers our COVID questions this week 

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

Older people in wheelchairs and blue masks line up to receive the vaccine against the COVID-19 during a vaccination session for elderly people over 85 years old, at a church in Taipei, Taiwan on June 15, 2021.
Aging

Aging Gracefully in Taiwan

Mayor-physician Ko Wen-Je's quest to reshape Taipei for seniors

Hundreds of women dressed in pink and white traditional North Korean gowns stand in rows in a central area of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Women's Day in March 2022.
Governance

North Korea's COVID-19 Crisis: An Impossible Outbreak in the "Impossible State"

Victor Cha, Korea chair at CSIS, on the health, political, and economic factors shaping North Korea's outbreak

A mother with long brown hair reads the label of a formula can in front of partially-empty grocery store shelves amid a nationwide shortage in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 2022.
Food

How the U.S. Baby Formula Shortage Affects Low-Income Families

Families living in poverty are making impossible trade-offs between food, rent, and essentials like formula and diapers

A masked pedestrian walks over Westminster Bridge in London, on January 27, 2022.
Governance

What to Know About "Stealth" Omicron 

Professor Ali H. Mokdad gives the rundown on the omicron subvariant BA.2

A man clears rubble from a psychiatric hospital that was destroyed by Russian forces
Governance

From Aleppo to Mariupol

Attacks on medical facilities in Syria and Ukraine will leave lasting scars

a man rides a horse in phoenix
Environment

Rising from the Ashes

An interview with Phoenix, Arizona, Mayor Kate Gallego

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of the Freetown, Sierra Leone, speaks at the Concordia Summit in Manhattan
Governance

Transforming Freetown After War

An interview with Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Sierra Leone's capital city