In Burkina Faso, the seasonal “Harmattan” winds have traditionally been associated with deadly meningitis outbreaks. But the winds have changed. A historic partnership between Burkina Faso and Gavi, the Vaccine…
In 2016, as Nigeria prepared to announce two years without a case of wild poliovirus, two children in northern Nigeria tested positive for polio. In an instant, the country’s track…
At the time, most people thought of Bihar as one of India’s most impoverished states. Communities along the Ganges River suffered from some of the world’s highest rates of infant…
The women polo players of Manipur are living symbols of a new India where the never-thought-possible has become possible. If the nation stays on track, a baby girl born this…
The GBD is one of the largest data science projects in the history of global health, and is revolutionizing the way people see the world around them. We’ve gathered over…
While the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s new strategy is being finalized, India is in the midst of its own health campaign that uses the polio eradication playbook to take on…
Even three decades later, Dr. Lorna Tumwebaze still remembers the fear she felt after encountering her first patient living with HIV at a hospital in her native Uganda. She had…
Improving newborn health is only possible if we also improve maternal health. Better care in community clinics or outposts can help families avoid the need of going to the hospital.
This week, Dana Hovig director of Integrated Delivery will be among the thousands of leaders and global health experts gathering in Kazakhstan to reaffirm their commitment to the Alma-Ata Declaration.…
New IHME maps are powered by an array of seemingly unrelated data sets: home health surveys, weather reports, agricultural statistics and more. They were calculated together using “model-based statistics,” a…
Learn about the fascinating strategies researchers are using to think like mosquitoes and work towards eradicating malaria. Dive into this intriguing article to find out more.
