Recommendations

Recommendations and reviews of books, films, and other media that explore and highlight issues in global health.

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Governance
a boy with a shaved head reads an ABCs book

How to Unwind This Summer

by Caroline Kantis

What CFR experts, staff, and friends are reading, watching, and listening to

Governance
People wear protective masks following the outbreak of a new coronavirus, during their morning commute in a station, in Hong Kong, China

Our Favorite Global Health Podcasts

by Caroline Kantis

Six podcasts covering climate change, gender, the pandemic, health security, and more

Two girls stand in Lviv, Ukraine wearing traditional Ukrainian blouses and wrapped in the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag
Migration

Ukrainian Culture as Medicine

by Lillian Posner

Six books and movies to soothe the heartbreak of the war in Ukraine

An animated image of the documentary film’s protagonist, Amin, who fled Afghanistan as a boy with his mother and siblings.
Migration

The New Animated Film "Flee" Will Change How You Think About the Refugee Experience

by Mary Brophy Marcus

The documentary tells the real-life story of a man who fled Afghanistan as a child

A woman reads a book at the Shinjuku branch of Book and Bed, an accommodation combined with book cafe where guests can sleep in hidden bunks built into a large bookshelf, during a photo opportunity in Tokyo, Japan September 14, 2018.
Governance

Best Books of 2021

by Caroline Kantis

Our top fifteen favorite reads of the year

Jabuben Bharwad, 30, receives a dose of COVISHIELD vaccine against COVID-19, that's manufactured by Serum Institute of India, while working in a field during a door-to-door vaccination drive at Mahijada village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, December 15, 2021
Governance

Best of 2021

by TGH Editorial Team

We published 365 stories on global health this year, here are our top picks

Cover of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Migration

Going Viral

by Luke Shors

An Interview with author Alina Chan on her new book about the origins of COVID-19

People walk near Chinese lanterns ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival at Tai O, in Hong Kong, China September 14, 2021.
Migration

The Global Sentiment of Gratitude

by Caroline Kantis

The wondrous ways communities around the world give thanks

COVID-19 street art in Navi Mumbai, India, on March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Environment

The Art of a Pandemic

by Mary Brophy Marcus

COVID-19 street art from around the world

Twila Cassadore teaching her niece to forage for food on the San Carlos Apache Nation, Arizona.
Food

New Netflix Release "Gather" Explores the Fight to Revitalize Native Foodways

by Mary Brophy Marcus

Think Global Health talks with the film's director about food sovereignty

Aftershocks book cover
Governance

Pandemics, Pathological Politics, and International Order

by David P. Fidler

A review of the new book "Aftershocks" by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street
Aging

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.
Environment

“Less a Leper Than I Have Been”

by Christopher Lee Manes

Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America

A boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district on July 10, 2014. Activists said the crater was caused by barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. The photo shows a boy leaping in mid-air into a water-filled hole. The water is muddy brown, and two other boys can be seen swimming in the hole with their heads bobbing out. Surrounding them is rubble. This is a powerful image. REUTERS/Hosam Katan
Gender

Baby in a Bomb Shelter

by Jason Socrates Bardi

Oscar nominated documentary “For Sama” gives powerful if gruesome glimpse of what it’s like to raise a kid in a war zone