Public Health

As China’s epidemic continues to spread, things may seem scary. Here are 10 simple precautions that can protect you from contracting the coronavirus.

Migration and higher fertility can’t alter the course of Europe’s graying, but there is a strategy to avoid disaster.

Female health workers and religious leaders are driving up the country’s dangerously low vaccination rates.

There’s one difference between the Wuhan virus and previous outbreaks in the region: China is now impossible to quarantine.

The country’s response to this outbreak has been far better than to SARS, although even more information-sharing is important.

Scores of people in Wuhan and Hong Kong have been sent to hospitals because of a mystery respiratory ailment—and true to form, China is trying to keep it quiet.

It’s not the disease that’s worrisome—it’s the Chinese government’s response to it.

But the president’s recent funding cuts to civil society organizations threaten to imperil their progress.

The United States has mounted a wide-ranging response to the latest deadly outbreak, as only it can.

Whoever sits in the White House come 2021 will likely have to confront a pandemic of some kind. He or she should start preparing now.

National security professionals have a duty to use their influence to fight hyperbole.

A generation of Afghans came of age amid relentless violence. Saturday’s election offers little hope for help.

The U.S. president’s third UNGA address could be more toned down than before.

But nobody is interested in doing anything about it.

The country’s vaccinators have overcome distrust, misinformation, and an insurgency to reach this point, but they can’t stop yet.

In Congo, thousands of people have died due to a misguided finance-driven approach to fighting pandemics that puts investors before victims.

U.S. health aid can also promote stability, mitigate extremism, and avoid costly longer-term military interventions.

How religious communities in the United States are providing free health care and overcoming anti-immigrant sentiment.

Trump’s budget reopens old—and unnecessary—arguments about the efficacy of health aid.