As the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) completes its eight-year mandate, global health leaders warn that escalating pandemic risks are outpacing international preparedness - demanding an urgent shift from fragmented technical fixes to sustained political commitment and independent oversight.

Each organization is contributing $50 million during an initial three-year validation phase to deploy the point-of-care technologies in high-burden settings.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPPR) by a substantial majority at a

International development lenders committed $4.7 billion in 2024 to projects aimed explicitly at reducing air pollution, less than 1% of all international development finance, according to an annual a...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked the Russian government for more information about the death of an employee at a Siberian plague research unit,

Health, long treated as a sanctuary of diplomatic consensus, has entered an era of high politics and ideological division. Leading the closing panel of the EU Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday (2 ...

BERLIN – As candidates to become WHO director-general squabbled in the halls of the InterContinental, a three-year effort by the Lancet on future health

BERLIN - The WHO Director-General election process ignited its first public candidate conversation on Sunday (11 October) at the  2026 World Health Summit in

Every five years, WHO rediscovers that its Director-Generalship is a political office metaphorically clad in a white coat. The search for Dr Tedros Adhanom

The data coincides with anecdotal staff reports of lagging investigations and an internal WHO auditor’s review reporting months of delay in case resolution

Of the $262 million Germany pledged to the WHO at the 2024 World Health Summit, only a third has been budgeted.

The shortlist of five finalists to serve as the next Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was disclosed by the organisation on Wednesday (30 September), launch...

Zambia and the United States finally signed a bilateral health aid agreement on Thursday – after a 10-month delay as the US pushed for better access to the

Beijing confirmed the nomination of National Health Commission official Dr Song Li for WHO Director-General on Thursday, 8 October, as first reported by Reuters. The move expands the candidate field t...

The core of my policy manifesto, One Doctor, Eight Billion Patients, is a single proposition: Universal Intelligence Coverage (UIC) for health. Universal

The Kenyan man who died of Ebola this week travelled extensively through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda and sought medical care from

Beijing confirmed the nomination of National Health Commission official Dr Song Li for WHO Director-General on Thursday, 8 October, as first reported by Reuters. The move expands the candidate field to seven amidst severe geopolitical ruptures shaking up the agency.

The core of my policy manifesto, One Doctor, Eight Billion Patients, is a single proposition: Universal Intelligence Coverage (UIC) for health. Universal

Progress towards global nutrition targets is too slow, and rising food prices threaten to put healthy diets even further out of reach for many, according to

The security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be behind the significant decline in Ebola cases over the past week, the Africa Centre

Although the United States' bilateral health memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with 35 countries are due to come into effect on Thursday (1 October), the

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked the Russian government for more information about the death of the employee at a Siberian plague research unit,

International development lenders committed $4.7 billion in 2024 to projects aimed explicitly at reducing air pollution, less than 1% of all international development finance, according to an annual analysis published Tuesday by the Clean Air Fund (CAF).

The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever guidelines to address how clinicians should manage obesity in children and adolescents, which

“From the very beginning, my life involved inhalers, medication, hospital visits, and many sleepless nights. One of my earliest memories having my first

China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official  for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health

China has nominated a prominent Chinese health official  for WHO Director General in the 2027 elections, multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed to Health

Nearly three in four maternal healthcare workers say extreme heat-related complications among pregnant women have increased over the past five years,

HARARE, Zimbabwe – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part

Health, long treated as a sanctuary of diplomatic consensus, has entered an era of high politics and ideological division. Leading the closing panel of the EU Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday (2 October), session chair Ilona Kickbusch, founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent votes at the UN General Assembly demonstrate that nation-states increasingly split and vote instead of searching for consensus.

COVID-19 dropped out of the world’s 10 leading causes of death in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, and only two years after it topped

However, despite Delhi’s the more science-based, and enforcement-oriented nature of the new plans, as compared to their predecessors, the 23.3 million

ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK - The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli

The shortlist of five finalists to serve as the next Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was disclosed by the organisation on Wednesday (30 September), launching the final phase of its leadership search. The incoming chief will assume office in early 2027, facing a massive funding shortfall and mounting geopolitical pressure to overhaul the global health architecture.

Progress towards global nutrition targets is too slow, and rising food prices threaten to put healthy diets even further out of reach for many, according to

Although the United States' bilateral health memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with 35 countries are due to come into effect on Thursday (1 October), the

At the opening of the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO)'s annual meeting on Monday, officials celebrated progress made in tackling regional health

New research found that after the US administration suspended its embassy air pollution monitoring initiative, air pollution increased by 23-33%, particularly