As the world continues to advance technologically, the emergence of new technologies brings great promise and opportunity for humanity. But, while these technologies offer immense potenti...
Health equity has become a cross-sector priority around many parts of the globe over the past several years, highlighting the role that each organization should play in helping create a s...
Health equity is aptly defined as “the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.” Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has illustrat...
This article was first published in October 2021, was updated in September 2022, and again on 14 April 2023 and 21 April 2023.
Infectious diseases are a problem everywhere — but more so in the world’s poorer countries.
Have you ever heard of Aarskog Syndrome? How about Abetalipoproteinemia? Probably not. As with all rare diseases, they occur in less than 0.05% of the global population.
"We need to keep educating people and dispel vaccine hesitancy," Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India (SII), tells the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerla...
Africa’s push towards public health autonomy is gaining momentum. With the creation of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African Medicines Agency and the propos...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global rollout of vaccines revealed the good, the bad and the ugly of the global community’s ability to come together and respond. The good – the deli...
In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that climate change has the potential to severely impact everyone’s health around the world. One of the greatest challenges of our ...
Climate change is expected to become the single biggest global crisis of this century, and a growing body of evidence suggests that, in addition to the toll it is already taking on the li...
On the same day the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting began in Davos on 21 January, 2020, the World Health Organization published its first situation report on Novel Coronavirus (2019...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health equity as "when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being." As 30% of the global population still cannot access...
The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has now been around for more than a year. Before omicron became dominant, there had been a quick succession of named var...
Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – ...
