As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG W...

The Labour government has announced plans to further reduce international development assistance and increase the UK’s defence spending. Kent Buse and Martin McKee ask, where is the logic in this? Th...

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In a review of global datasets for hypertension, diabetes, HIV, and AIDS, Alessandro Feraldi and colleagues investigate the importance of sex-disaggregated data.

In many countries, males are more likely than females to get sick and die from three common conditions, and less likely to get medical care, according to a new study by Angela Chang of the University of Southern Denmark, and colleagues, published in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

When we, as Commissioners or authors, set out to gather, analyse, interrogate, and consolidate diverse bodies of evidence for the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health,1 we were ...

Gender plays a major role in understanding why people smoke or drink alcohol, or what stops a person from visiting their doctor.

Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...

As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

"Thinking and Acting Politically for Effective Policies for Physical Activity" published on 14 Mar 2025 by Human Kinetics.

As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

As a fifth of adults in the UK have diabetes or pre-diabetes, the politics of physical activity policy must be tackled, argue Karen Milton and colleagues Recent data show that one in five adults in ...

"Thinking and Acting Politically for Effective Policies for Physical Activity" published on 14 Mar 2025 by Human Kinetics.

The Paris Statement says all the right things. It calls for the development of AI in line with international frameworks, in ways that are ‘open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy’;...

As many as 1,300 probationary employees at CDC and 1,500 at NIH are losing their jobs. Many fear for the future of public health and scientific research.

The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

The rise of “strongman” leaders globally demands a feminist pushback to fight for social justice, argue Lynsey Robinson and colleagues , who outline three areas of action for the year ahead Across di...

In a major blow to global health, the US administration has announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Kent Buse and colleagues propose urgent actions for the international commun...

Much attention has rightly been placed on how to fill the World Health Organization’s funding gap if and when the US withdraws. Kent Buse and colleagues argue that President Trump’s idea to establish ...

Much attention has rightly been placed on how to fill the World Health Organization’s funding gap if and when the US withdraws. Kent Buse and colleagues argue that President Trump’s idea to establish ...