By guest contributor Julia Smith At last month’s UN High Level Meeting on Pandemic Preparedness, Marie-Claire Wangari from Women in Global Health…
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Global Health Lessons in Care – learning from women on the frontlines of pandemic response
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Collections Digital Determinants of Health – PLOS Digital Health
Today PLOS Digital Health has published its first-ever thematic collection, ‘The Digital Determinants of Health’, a set of reviews covering the digital…
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post Improving the experience of pregnant and birthing women: New series offers strategies to end mistreatment and offer respectful maternal health care
Note: a version of this blog post is also published here. A growing body of evidence shows that the mistreatment of women…
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Global Health Redefining the Practice of Global Health: Insights from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2023 conference
By Beryne Odeny (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Surgery) and Julia Robinson (PLOS Global Public Health) The first in-person CUGH…
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Global Health Failure to Integrate the UHC, TB, and PPPR Agendas will Squander Resources and Cost Lives
By guest contributors: Juliana Soares Linn, Director, Infectious Diseases Department, FHI 360, Emily Headrick, Clinical Technical Advisor, FHI 360, Petra Heitkamp, Community…
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Global Health From Healing Bodies to Healing Earth: Harnessing the Legacy of Health Activism in the Fight Against Climate Change
By guest contributor Shweta Narayan July 2023 is now the officially the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, and it’s clear that…
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Behind the Paper Behind the paper: A collaborative approach to improving representation in viral genomic surveillance
In this post, we speak to the authors of a recent PLOS Global Public Health article, A collaborative approach to improving representation in viral…
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Covid-19 Calling the shots – A pandemic story of community mobilization and immunization recovery in West Bengal, India
Authors: Dr. Kayur Mehta, Maliha Ahmad, Dr. Aastha Kant and Dr. Anita Shet are public health researchers at the Johns Hopkins Maternal…
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Global Health Healthcare will not be accessible to all until gender, sexuality and disability are included
Authors: Felicia Mburu, the director of the Article 48 Initiative, is a disability rights activist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Gulnar Feerasta, the…
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Global Health To End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030: “Ubugeni Bwomora,” ~ Art that Heals, a Call for Collaborative Initiatives Led by Youth Living with HIV
By guest contributors Agape Ishimwe and Joyeuse Senga In 2015, the ALL IN End Adolescent AIDS initiative was launched by UNICEF and…
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Global Health Unraveling the Knot: The Complex and Multi-Pronged Negotiations of Global Pandemic Response Reform
By guest contributor Yassen Tcholakov The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities and shortcomings of the global health system. From strained healthcare…
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Chagas In Memoriam: Kamran Rafiq – A Visionary Leader in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Kamran, an individual whose unwavering dedication has left a profound mark on the global health community and the pursuit to end all…