We observed little change over time in the prevalence of chewing tobacco use, accompanied by a growing burden of associated death and disability. This burden of stroke and head and neck cancers is see...

The populations with the largest treatment gaps are not necessarily those that could achieve the greatest absolute reduction in cardiovascular risk through treating individuals who are currently untre...

The severity and immediacy of climate change hardly need emphasising. July 2026 saw the hottest sea temperatures ever recorded, and was the second-warmest July ever. The wildfires burning through mile...

Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own hea...

Podcast Episode · The Lancet Global Health in conversation with · June 19 · 30m

The infant tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, prevents severe tuberculosis disease, but protection is rarely durable beyond childhood. New tuberculosis vaccines are being developed for the prevention of infec...

The infant tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, prevents severe tuberculosis disease, but protection is rarely durable beyond childhood. New tuberculosis vaccines are being developed for the prevention of infec...

Almost a quarter of global tuberculosis incidence in adults could be averted by eliminating undernutrition, approximately two-and-a-half times higher than current estimates. These findings highlight t...

Structural inequities remain deeply embedded in global health governance and knowledge production, shaping which voices are heard and whose expertise and priorities are valued. Attempts to understand ...

Medicine Podcast · Every two months · Gavin Cleaver, Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined in conversation by authors of new publications in the journal to explore their latest research...

Medicine Podcast · Every two months · Gavin Cleaver, Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined in conversation by authors of new publications in the journal to explore their latest research...

In late November, 2025, five human rights organisations petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice to allow for the evacuation of patients from the Gaza Strip into the West Bank and East Jerusalem. ...

Reliable and affordable clean energy is essential for modern living and powering economies. Access to clean energy has increased substantially in low-income and middle-income countries over the past t...

Tuberculosis persists as the world's deadliest infectious disease, despite improved diagnostics and effective treatment. The tuberculogenic environment describes the sum of influences, vulnerabilities...

What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts? Madhukar Pai joins...

Reliable and affordable clean energy is essential for modern living and powering economies. Access to clean energy has increased substantially in low-income and middle-income countries over the past t...

Reliable and affordable clean energy is essential for modern living and powering economies. Access to clean energy has increased substantially in low-income and middle-income countries over the past t...

This World Tuberculosis Day, as ever, the world has everything it needs to end tuberculosis in our lifetimes. Yet in 2024, 1·23 million people died of tuberculosis, indicating that tuberculosis persis...

The following individuals reviewed at least one paper for The Lancet Global Health in 2025, including those who co-reviewed with a colleague. We sincerely thank every one of them and hope to engage fu...

The percentage of inherited AMR ancestry is strongly associated with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in this admixed Mexican population. These findings suggest that most of the Mexican population has ...

The lifting of the status of mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) is a major epidemiological and political milestone.1 However, this change in status should not be confuse...

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become increasingly embedded in global health research and practice, they offer new opportunities to address gaps in women's health, including maternal health and gender equity. Additionally, as shown by Peige Song and colleagues in this issue, AI could help identify and prioritise research directions that address the needs of marginalised groups. Yet these technologies may also be misused to amplify harm and perpetuate inequities. The recent Grok AI scandal, involving the non-consensual creation and dissemination of explicit sexual images of women and girls through generative AI, is a clear warning of the misuse of AI.

As Washington recasts its global health agenda, the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) presents itself as a corrective to decades of aid dependence.1 Open-ended assistance is replaced with t...