By guest contributor Ben Phillips Global health and solidarity are being wrought asunder by attacks by strongmen – attacks which are exemplified…
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Global Health We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win
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Mental Health Introducing the Inaugural PLOS Mental Health Lived Experience Focus Group
Towards the end of last year, PLOS Mental Health announced its intentions to form an independent focus group, which would give people…
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Mental Health Getting to know PLOS Mental Health: Underlying Mechanisms of Mental Health Conditions and Therapies
Our first ‘Getting to know PLOS Mental Health‘ blog of 2025 focuses on our newest Section Editor – Dr AZA Allsop, who…
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Global Health Glo-cal health leadership: reflections from Japan
The author receiving the award from Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, founder of Japan’s Health and Global Policy Institute By guest contributor Renzo R…
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Global Health Treating the Cause, Not Just the Symptom: The GLP-1 Access Debate
By guest contributors Giridhara Rathnaiah Babu and Abdella Mohammed Habib The spectacular rise of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and GIP/GLP-1 dual…
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Mental Health Journeys in Mental Health: Quo Vadis (peri)menopause? – Shining a light on women`s health
In the latest blog of PLOS Mental Health’s ‘Journeys in Mental Health’ series, our contributor, Dr Anna Schueth, has chosen to waiver…
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Global Health We Need to Consider Gentrification a Global Health Issue
By guest contributor Isabel Muñoz Beaulieu The environment a person lives in has huge impacts on health outcomes. A lack of access…
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Behind the Paper Behind the paper: “Fear of the unknown”: Health, disability, and stakeholder perspectives on the behavioral and social drivers of vaccination in children with disability in Fiji
In this post, we talk to the authors of a recently published paper, “Fear of the unknown”: Health, disability, and stakeholder perspectives…
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Global Health Designing effective training programs for applied mathematical modeling
By guest contributors Jaline Gerardin and Sheetal P. Silal The direct application of mathematical models of infectious disease to inform policy decisions…
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Global Health Upholding human dignity among researchers in collaborative research
By guest contributors Nancy Angeline Gnanaselvam and J Charles Davis Human dignity is the inherent value that every human being possesses equally…
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Global Health The Imperative for Solidarity in Care and Crises: A book review of Dr. Joanne Liu’s l’Ébola, les bombes, et les migrants (Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants)
By guest contributor Sophie Arseneault In an era marked by impunity and polycrises, the international humanitarian sector faces mounting accountability for its…
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Global Health Where We Stand, Where We Look: A book review of The Foreign Gaze by Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá
By guest contributor Tom Wein In times of crisis, advises the American educationalist Fred Rogers, seek comfort by looking for the helpers…