November 19, 2018 Update: The Untold Global Health Stories of 2019 is now closed. Thank you for all the fantastic entries! The winners will be notified soon, but the announcement will not be made public until early March 2020. Do you know an important global health…
Our work is based on science and trust, on our ability to communicate reliable information—and on having people believe that information is real. We help Tanzanians change their behaviors to protect themselves from malaria by laying out the advantages of sleeping under…
MONTRÉAL—“When you have more, you have to give more.” That advice, from Québec's Chief Public Health Officer Horacio Arruda, aptly described his audience of medical students attending a health inequities forum at the International Federation of Medical Students’…
MONTRÉAL, Quebec— Courtney Howard had to act. As an emergency department physician in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Howard, MD, sees climate change behind the warming of the subarctic permafrost, the asthma cases exacerbated by wildfires and the changes in the diet…
The consensus for the need for strong leadership within global health has been growing over a number of years.
It’s a public health nightmare: 250,000 doses of substandard vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus administered to children through a government health program. While China has had scandals over tainted food or drugs before, this recent debacle threatens to…
Attacks on healthcare services are a cruel reality of today's violent conflicts.
Over the past decade, opportunities for students and trainees to travel internationally have grown substantially. Universities and non-profit organizations offer a variety of short-and long-term opportunities for global health research, practice, and cultural experience.…
When the G7 and heads of intergovernmental organizations come together today in the beautiful Charlevoix region of Quebec, there will be one goal in everyone’s mind: Build a more sustainable, equitable and secure world.
When first announced in early May, there was concern that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would spiral out of control like the 2013-2016 West Africa epidemic that left over 11,000 dead. Although many were focused on the potential international…
