By guest contributor Rachel Hall-Clifford Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu’ Kawoq staff and midwives co-designing the safe+natal toolkit in Guatemala. Several years…
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Global Health Can co-design promote equity in global health?
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Global Health The Right to Flee – looking after the wellbeing of people who are forcibly displaced
By guest contributors Sylvia Garry, Clare Shortall, Rita Issa, Aula Abbara, Sarah Walpole Every day, people choose to move within countries and…
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Global Health Improving the global clinical trials ecosystem – a World Health Assembly resolution
By guest contributors Vasee Moorthy, John Reeder, Soumya Swaminathan When Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) answer relevant research questions, employing robust scientific methodology…
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Global Health Navigating Ebola: Women’s Health in a Bloody Epidemic
By guest contributor Benjamin Black Ebola epidemics summon the world’s attention. Newspapers and reporters are quick to remind their audiences of the…
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Climate Change PLOS supports the call for urgent, immediate action to address health impacts of climate change in Africa
PLOS stands in support of the more than 250 journals calling for urgent action on climate change for Africa and for the…
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Global Health “If you are uncomfortable in the room then you are in the right place” – Reflections on anti-racism and decolonizing global health from the International AIDS Conference in Montreal
By guest contributors Ayoade Alakija, Winnie Byanyima, Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, Madhukar Pai; Christine Stegling, Steve Letsike, Lazenya Weekes-Richemond, Lola Abayomi, Leigh-Anne-Agnew, Divya…
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Global Health Day of the Girl Child: Let’s Aim for A World Free of Cervical Cancer
By guest contributors Jessica Posner and Nicole Castle “The HPV vaccine has a vital role to play in preventing cervical cancer. We…
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Global Health Stopping Gun Violence in the Americas: A Preventable Pandemic
By guest contributors Rashi Jhunjhunwala, MD MA; Arturo Cervantes Trejo MD MPH DrPH; Pablo Tarcisio Uribe-Leitz MD MPH; John Lindsay-Poland, Keith Martin…
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Global Health How to lead an African public health institute through a pandemic
By guest contributor Professor Stanley Okolo The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) faced numerous challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic but was ultimately…
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Global Health Is global health ignoring global human development?
By guest contributor Themrise Khan Global health has dominated world headlines since the emergence of COVID-19. More so at times, than other…
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Global Health UK COVID-19 Inquiry Must Examine the Paternalism and Power Dynamics Underpinning its International Pandemic Response
By guest contributor Harry Bignell, Health Policy Advisor at Oxfam Since being officially declared a pandemic in March 2020, COVID-19 caused the…
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Global Health Why Every Body Counts
By guest contributors Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee, and Jennifer Leaning In May 2022, the WHO reported that India had the highest COVID-19…