By guest contributor Renzo R. Guinto, MD DrPH, Section Editor for Planetary and Environmental Health, PLOS Global Public Health During this year’s…
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Global Health The future One Sustainable Health Institute – time to stop longstanding injustices in health
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Global Health Lessons in Care – learning from women on the frontlines of pandemic response
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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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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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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Global Health The beauty of (open) data will save public global health
By guest contributor Francesco Branda How many of us can remember our friends’ phone numbers, how many can keep in mind all…
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Global Health UN Member States Must Adopt Bold Commitments on Health
By guest contributors Luis Gil Abinader, Adi Radhakrishnan, Alice Kayongo, Sharonann Lynch, Matthew M. Kavanagh The United Nations (UN) General Assembly will…
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Global Health Evidence synthesis for the south, from the south: The Disability Evidence Portal and evidence-based decision-making in disability-inclusive development
By guest contributors Xanthe Hunt, Zara Trafford, Prince Changole, Ruth Useh & Tom Shakespeare The dominant perception of disability as individual pathology…