In a tribal village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a girl once missed five days of school every month. She was not ill. Her family did not keep her home. She stayed back because s...
In a small village school in Rajasthan, India, 12-year-old Priya winces as she sips water from the school's hand pump. The high fluoride content has already mottled her teeth – a visible ...
The world stands on a crossroads regarding fighting the multiple challenges confronting humanity, the most pressing one being climate change. But the impacts of climate change vary greatl...
Tobacco kills up to half of its users – more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the res...
In pursuit of a long life that has been well lived, the development of new vaccines plays a critical role to fight infectious diseases and to face the challenges of public health and glob...
While the COVID-19 crisis has largely spared children from its devastating health effects, its impact on their education has been profound. The effects of school closures have been far-re...
COVID-19 has proven to be not only a health crisis, but also a livelihood crisis – quickly turning into a hunger and malnutrition catastrophe.
It’s a common misconception that cardiovascular diseases only affect men or women in high-income countries, or that they result from poor lifestyle choices.
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerabilities in our social, political and economic systems and amplified pre-existing gender inequalities in these spheres. We have witnessed the public health...
