Addressing the harms associated with drug use, illicit transnational drug trade, and the policies tied to them is one of the greatest policy challenges of our time—with intersectionalities to health, ...

At the beginning of this decade, tremors rumbling within the inherited conventions of global health research erupted.

Machine digital eyes can glean far more information from a scan than human experts can readily detect or accurately decipher. It may not be long before a chest x-ray report comes back with your risk ...

WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ...

Sudan is facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since gaining independence in 1956. The history of conflicts in Sudan is long and heterogeneous, moving from foreign colonisation to internal ethnic ...

The negotiations for the WHO Pandemic Agreement have brought attention to issues of racism and colonialism in global health. Although the agreement aims to promote global solidarity, it fails to ...

In her 2013 essay collection, Meaty, the comedian and writer Samantha Irby quips that, “as autoimmune diseases go”, her diagnosis of Crohn's disease “is one of the least glamorous of the bunch”. As a ...

With two endorsed and prophylactic vaccines against Zaire ebolavirus (referred to hereafter as EBOV), the number of individuals vaccinated against EBOV worldwide is estimated to range between 500 000 ...

Approximately a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, which is the seedbed from which all forms of ...

Although several countries have adopted a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategy, many other countries ...

Asthma, one of the most common non-communicable chronic diseases globally, provides a compelling example of how health inequities can impact the incidence and severity of a respiratory condition. The ...

The term long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, was coined in spring, 2020, by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 in response to unsatisfactory recognition of this ...