Research & Analysis

Feeding Dignity: A 2026 Blueprint for Food Aid in a Divided World

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From Sudan to the U.S. farm belt, hunger is rising not from scarcity but political disinvestment

A Sudanese displaced woman who was held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), cooks food at a camp for displaced people who fled from al-Fashir to Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on November 15, 2025.

China's Evolving Global Health Leadership

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China's global health ascendence offers alternatives for partnerships that differ from traditional, U.S.-dominated models

Women work in a laboratory of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech, developing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, during a government-organized media tour, in Beijing, China, on September 24, 2020.

Helping Older Adults Navigate AI Scams

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Regulatory efforts to protect seniors against AI-related risks are emerging across the United States

Helping Older Adults Navigate AI Scams

What the Development Finance Corporation Reauthorization Means for Global Health Security

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The federal institution's new authorities and expanded mandate could facilitate U.S. engagement on global health security

Researchers work inside a laboratory at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 11, 2020.

SNAP Benefits in 2026: What Older Adults Should Expect From Work Requirements

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An explainer outlines new work requirements for U.S. food benefits and the ways older adults can meet them

Jane Parrish, 86, collects food from a pantry supported by Trinity's Table at the Roosevelt Community Center, in Charleston, West Virginia, on March 19, 2025.

Repairing Global Health Security at the Humanitarian Frontline

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Reorienting the global preparedness system to include humanitarian settings requires conceptual and operational shifts

A nurse from Save the Children prepares vaccinations for internally displaced Somali children, in Baidoa, Somalia, on June 25, 2025.

Best of 2025

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Think Global Health editors pick their top 25 articles for 2025

Turkana women sit under a tree as community health workers screen their children for malnutrition, in Aposta village, Turkana County, Kenya, on October 30, 2025.

Africa's Push For Health Sovereignty

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Africa's leaders are explicitly reframing health financing as an economic and fiscal priority, not a social afterthought

Jocelyne Mitoba, who was detained for 8 days with her baby for lack of money at Bethesda Medical Center, holds her newborn at her home, in Ngaba, a neighborhood of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on February 18, 2023.

Why Mumbai's Overcrowded Trains Prove Fatal

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The city's suburban railway claims 10 lives a day on average, but authorities continue to delay safety reforms

Commuters wait for a train at Goregaon railway station in suburban Mumbai on August 7, 2025.

A New Era for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

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Emerging biomarkers and digital tools are unlocking earlier and more accurate diagnosis

Teresa, 75, an Alzheimer's patient and former businesswoman, poses for a photograph inside the Alzheimer Foundation, in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 19, 2012.

The Economics of Lung Cancer and Drug Delays in Latin America

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A new analysis unpacks the extent of how slow regulatory approvals hamper cancer drug availability in Latin America

Norma del Carme Blandin, a cancer patient, sits in a wheelchair inside her bedroom, at the Casa-Albergue, in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 20, 2017.

Concerns Over Animal Health and EU Food Security

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As the EU reviews its Common Agricultural Policy, investing in animal health offers a sustainability measure that could benefit farmers and consumers

A goat is seen in a pen during an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, in Schoeneiche, Germany, on January 13, 2025.