global health

First Opinion By David Introcaso

The National Academy of Medicine’s climate crisis effort must turn words into action

Health By Theresa Gaffney

Rates of depression and anxiety climbed across the globe in 2020, analysis finds

Special Report By Olivia Goldhill — STAT and Rosa Furneaux and Madlen Davies — TBIJ

‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

Health By Helen Branswell

In major decision, WHO recommends broad rollout of world’s first malaria vaccine

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

WHO adds Regeneron drug to recommended Covid-19 treatments, but criticizes its pricing

Health By Helen Branswell

A conversation with Bill Gates on how public health has fared in the midst of the pandemic

Health By Helen Branswell

CEPI warns of major hurdle to developing new Covid-19 vaccines and studying best booster approaches

First Opinion By Matshidiso Moeti

Africa has a chance to help the world end polio for good. It needs to seize it now

Health By Andrew Joseph

The WHO is looking for experts to help investigate the origins of pathogens — including the coronavirus

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

‘Things are so messed up’: Patient access to antibiotics is lacking even in the wealthiest countries

Health By Andrew Joseph

No new monkeypox cases reported after health officials monitor hundreds

First Opinion By Martha Rebour and Lori Sloate

A double vaccine crisis is endangering millions of children

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pfizer looks to widen access to Covid-19 vaccine in Africa, but advocates say it doesn’t go far enough

Health By Andrew Joseph

Biden to nominate Atul Gawande for global health position

Health By Megan Molteni

World Health Organization advisers urge global effort to regulate genome editing

First Opinion By Peter Sands

Why aren’t diseases like HIV and malaria, which still kill millions of people a year, called pandemics?

In the Lab By Erika Check Hayden

Could editing the genomes of bats prevent future coronavirus pandemics? Two scientists think it’s worth a try

First Opinion By Lipi Roy, Reshma Gupta and Bhavna Lall

India’s doctors — at home and abroad — face Covid’s unrelenting toll

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

As Covid-19 rages in India, Gilead faces pressure to lower price of drug to treat black fungus in recovering patients

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Planned changes at Soros’ Open Society has access-to-medicines advocacy groups on edge

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

American Medical Association delegates vote to support controversial Covid-19 IP waiver

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

WTO members agree to step up talks about Covid-19 intellectual property proposals

Health By Helen Branswell

A pandemic upside: The flu virus became less diverse, simplifying the task of making flu shots

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

‘A perilous point’: Global agencies call for $50 billion investment to combat Covid-19

First Opinion By Gagan K. Thapa and Duncan Maru

In ‘vaccine apartheid,’ Nepal is ground zero. It needs U.S. help