List of Health articles
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Angela Merkel and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attend the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence’s opening. The WHO’s New Pandemic Center Isn’t Ready for Action
For now, the health agency’s newest hub is mostly just for show.
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Health workers wearing PPE stand next to buses at a cordoned-off section of the international arrivals area, where arriving travelers are to be taken into quarantine, at the international airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14. China Reckons With Omicron’s Specter
The biggest country to maintain “zero COVID” faces its greatest challenge yet.
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Health care workers in Lagos, Nigeria 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About 2022
Start the new year on a bright note: Here are five things to be excited about.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi How Narendra Modi Nearly Lost His Way in 2021
India’s farmers’ protests and COVID-19 catastrophe may have slowed the prime minister’s rise.
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A syringe of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Year Vaccines Changed (Most) of the World
In 2021, the biggest vaccination drive in global history affected everything from public health to diplomacy.
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Protesters hold signs during an anti-vaccination rally at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Nov. 11. Why People Reject Vaccination—and How to Change Their Minds
Anti-vaccination beliefs are highly dependent on cultural and social context. Here’s what worked in two United States-based studies.
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Nurses draw vaccine doses from a vial in Maryland. Stop Treating Vaccine Hesitancy Like an Afterthought
Although current headlines are focused on South Africa, this is very much a challenge facing the global north.
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People protest France’s vaccination law. For Europe’s Far-Right, Vaccine Skepticism Is a Trap
Playing to the anti-vaccine base hasn’t led to electoral gains—yet.
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A boy holds a toy gun. Lockdowns Produced a New Generation of Child Soldiers
In Colombia, armed groups have treated the pandemic as a recruitment opportunity.
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A passenger arriving from South Africa is tested for COVID-19 at Schiphol airport on Dec. 2 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The World Is Starting to Doubt Biden’s Promise That ‘America Is Back’
From omicron restrictions to the Iran deal and the democracy summit, Washington is making questionable calls that don’t inspire confidence in U.S. leadership.
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Paramedics assess a COVID-19 patient in Johannesburg How HIV and COVID-19 Variants Are Connected
It’s a matter of time until an even more dangerous coronavirus variant emerges if we fail to vaccinate the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Women stand in a queue as they wait to receive a dose of the Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 at a primary health center in Siliguri, India, on Aug. 2. How to End Vaccine Apartheid
The United States has failed on its boast to be an “arsenal of vaccines.”
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Relatives weep during the funeral of singer Jonghyun. South Korea Is No Country for Young People
“Squid Game” reflects a landscape of despair.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with a nurse. Nurses Aren’t Like iPhones
Why Western countries can’t rely on imported labor in key professions.
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Staff at the KL Fertility Centre demonstrate the egg freezing procedure for members of the media in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 11. A growing number of women in Singapore are traveling overseas to clinics such as this one to freeze their eggs. Why Does the Singaporean Government Care About Egg Freezing?
The city-state’s ban on the procedure is making its demographic problems worse.
