Interviews

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

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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
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

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 union 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

A health worker prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccines at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre, Malawi.
Governance

A "Radical Plan" to Produce Vaccines Locally

Science reporter Amy Maxmen discusses "the hub" and the making of her new podcast for Big Picture Science

A bird's eye view of dozens of college students performing during a flash mob as a tribute to the cultural diversity of India, at Mumbai Central railway station, in Mumbai, India, September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni
Governance

Three Years In

As India approaches the third anniversary of COVID, Ramanan Laxminarayan takes the temperature of the country's health

A child wears a skull mask at an anti-tobacco awareness rally on World No Tobacco Day in Kolkata, India, on May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
Governance

Beating the Bidi Habit In India

An interview with Vandana Shah explores tobacco use and policy in India

Ugandan medical staff inspect the ebola preparedness facilities at Bwera General Hospital near Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Bwera, Uganda, on June 12, 2019.
Poverty

Ebola in Uganda

An interview with emergency physician and Ebola survivor Craig Spencer

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 

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

Monkeypox Transmission Explained

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

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