Public Health

The deadly disease is spreading rapidly around the globe, fueled by a cratering of social trust.

Africa isn’t just dealing with an outbreak anymore—and that’s bad news for everyone.

Ireland voted to liberalize abortion laws. The far-right government in Warsaw is moving in the opposite direction.

Leaders who refuse to acknowledge the public health consequences of air pollution, disease outbreaks, and drought will soon feel the wrath of voters at the polls.

The government has gone to great lengths to keep asylum-seekers from its shores. Now it might have to accept some of them after all.

Internal memos reflect the growing influence of conservative Christians in the Trump administration.

By deliberately destroying and degrading public health infrastructure, the Syrian regime is reviving long-eradicated diseases and killing civilians.

The world thought it knew how to deal with Ebola outbreaks—but it’s never dealt with one like this before.

Deadly diseases like Ebola and the avian flu are only one flight away. The U.S. government must start taking preparedness seriously.

Washington nearly killed the U.N. anti-TB effort, but it didn't need to. The U.N. will do that itself.

A huge vaccine scandal hits at Beijing's most vulnerable point: children's safety.

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.

With escalating drug prices and growing vaccine paranoia, American populism is taking down the edifice of global public health.

As populations age, countries will need ever more primary health workers and aides — jobs robots will never do well. So why do we treat these workers so badly?

Drug-resistant diseases are on the rise. Only a global effort to prevent overuse of antibiotics can halt the threat.

Amid the latest Ebola outbreak, the Trump administration is handing leadership to Angela Merkel — and she's not out to protect American interests.

As the monsoon season looms, hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps at risk of an imminent cholera outbreak.

As a new outbreak surfaces in Africa, the only possible motive for ending America's anti-Ebola program is that Barack Obama started it.

Everyone in the West, royalty or not, gets better maternal health care than parents in the United States.

Critics of overseas development assistance say it's a waste. The evidence shows that investments in public health enhance stability and security.