Letter From Geneva: America Is Retreating From Systems It Still Needs
The world still relies on the UN health agency during emergencies. It simply does so now with fewer illusions about political solidarity.
Health
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Visa Apartheid in an Age of Populism
Border regimes are a structural threat to global health.
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Recipes for Change
Healthy food programs often focus on changing individual habits. But eating is a social activity, connecting people and nourishing communities.
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The DoorDash Driver
Health Access Programs offer basic services to uninsured residents. But delivery drivers are often too busy, too indebted and too scared to take advantage of them.
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Not All Hungers Are the Same
On the Papuan plantation frontier, industrial oil palm concessions are creating new ways of thinking about hunger: as a force that haunts, as a form of shame, as a source of anger.
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What Will Bring the Next Generation of Global Health Students Hope?
Students can learn from past social movements so they can rebuild global health creatively and without restraint.
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From Neuron to Neighborhood
Kenyan community care networks offer a model for how people can live well with dementia.
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What Long COVID Reveals About Fragmented Care
The problem is not insufficient expertise; it is insufficient integration.
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The Double Standard of Evidence
The wealthy can afford their skepticism. It is the poor who bear the consequences when herd immunity erodes.
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Did USAID Save Lives or Burn Cash?
Partisans may have made up their minds. But most Americans remain genuinely curious about what worked, what didn’t, and why.