When COVID-19 swept the globe in 2020, the shock exposed not only a viral threat but the fragility of systems — from supply chains and food security to governance and global finance. For Andrea ...

Welcome to the Global Health Checkup, Healthbeat’s new weekly report highlighting five of the week’s most important stories in public health from around the world. This week: Ebola, hunger in South ...

After months of aid cuts, the State Department has released a 35-page document detailing how it plans to roll out global ...

The world is facing an interconnected health crisis: zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, environmental degradation, and climate change threaten millions of lives. An international expert group, The ...

Public health advocates complained that the final recommendations on combating chronic illness removed calls for taxes on ...

The UNDP report “Development Dimensions of Drug Policy” argues that punitive drug control has deepened poverty, inequality, ...

Major pharmaceutical companies are making strategic moves to enhance profitability and address health challenges. McKesson ...

Health systems research plays a critical role in understanding and improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of healthcare delivery. This field explores societal organization around shared ...

Leading economists, policy-makers, and development practitioners from around the world convened at LUMS this week for the three-day ...

New York, 15 May 2025 — The global economy is at a precarious juncture, marked by heightened trade tensions and elevated policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as ...