PLOS Global Public Health is proud to welcome Professor Manuela De Allegri as the journal’s new co-Editor-in-Chief. A distinguished scholar and global…

By guest contributors Chiamaka P. Ojiako and Madhukar Pai What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other…

By guest contributor Elburg van Boetzelaer “When an older person dies, it is a library that burns down.” With these words by…

Every World Polio Day (observed on October 24) is a time to pause and reflect on one of the greatest public-health achievements…

This year, the theme for World Mental Health Day is ‘access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies’. Supporting those…

In this post, we talk to the authors of the recently published paper, Continuing to be cautious: Japanese Contact Patterns during the…

Tsitsi Masvawure is a medical anthropologist, global health researcher and feminist scholar, whose research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and health…

By guest contributors Madeleine Baxter and Holly Baker “If we don’t conduct – or at least stimulate – certain types of research to…

By guest contributor Cassange BITERE In 2024, Haiti accounted for 38% of all new HIV infections in the Caribbean, and although an…

By guest contributors Christine M. Bachman and Dr. Kavitha Saravu In the past decade, we’ve seen real progress in malaria control. New…

By guest contributors Garrett Wallace Brown, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; and David Bell, Independent Global Health Consultant, Lake Jackson, USA. Introduction…

By guest contributors Gift Malunga and Luchuo Engelbert Bain Adolescent pregnancy in Zambia remains one of the most urgent yet under-addressed public…