This paper offers a contextually grounded guide for enhancing rigour in qualitative case study research, focusing on early-career researchers in the Global Sout...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - What factors influence evidence use in policy? An updated systematic map

Background Interaction between science and policy might be a crucial asset for policy decisions during public health emergencies. Much work has been published about processes and forms of science-poli...

Global health researchers, UN agencies, and donors have become expert at documenting the deterioration of population health during conflict, yet documentation has not stopped that deterioration. Drawi...

Meta-analysis, from Greek μετά (meta, after) and ἀνά-λυσις (ana-lysis, breaking up), refers to the analysis of analyses. Meta-analyses address what existing studies collectively allow to be inferred, ...

Rethinking measurement priorities requires centering the people who actually produce and use health data — health workers, facility teams, and district managers, not philanthropists or donor countries...

In this Policy Forum article, Isabelle Munyangaju and colleagues discuss why the roll-out and scale-up of HIV self-testing over the last decade has been inadequate, and highlight what is needed—learni...

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In this Comment, we argue for a global health system that recognizes and supports countries as the primary agents of action, oriented around global public goods and collective action, and served by a ...

Delivering sexual and reproductive health justice requires a new independent and neutral global body where global rights obligations are prioritised, write Attiya Waris and colleagues The freefall i...

Exposure to artificial intelligence tools, whether direct or indirect, has to be assessed with specific methodology, taking inspiration from environmental epidemiology, and with specific data collecti...

Background The global family planning field has long relied on a few standard measures to assess program effectiveness and population-level outcomes, such as modern contraceptive prevalence, unmet nee...

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

Landmark procedure expands soft-tissue robotics in East Africa, though high costs present an ongoing barrier for low-income patients.

Health campaigns deliver life-saving vaccines and treatments to millions of people around the world. Yet for years, campaign success has largely been measured

An analysis of 67 reform proposals reveals a country-led and systems-focused vision for global health's next chapter, but questions remain on how to implement it

Depoliticising resilience? Uncovering the political theories of health system resilience

Background Following our previous investigation of 456 articles published by the IHU-Méditerranée Infection (IHU-Mi) institute in Marseille, France, subsequent editorial actions, institutional reviews...

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

Executive Coaching at the Intersection of Science, Strategy, Politics, and Diplomacy The Luchuo Academy is a high-level coaching and advisory platform designed for professionals, scientists, and leade...

The Lancet Regional Health – Africa has a strong commitment to being a voice for the region, decolonising global health, and the promotion of equitable partnerships in health and medical research.1 Th...

Primary health care (PHC) cannot succeed without trust, community engagement, and sustained uptake of services.1,2 Yet one of the functions most central to these outcomes, social and behaviour change ...

Submit your research abstract for CPHIA 2026. Guidelines, key dates, and submission information.

Amédé Gogovor and colleagues explain how scaling studies differ from implementation studies and present 33 recommendations for how to report scaling studies with maximum accuracy and usefulness. Repo...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping infectious disease diagnostics by supporting clinical decision making, optimising laboratory and clinical workflows, and enabling real-time disease surveillan...

Visa inequities in global health have moved from the margins of academic discourse to the centre of a growing reform agenda. While recent literature has established that visa regimes function as struc...

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

Measuring and comparing responsible AI development, deployment, and governance across countries worldwide.

This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is globa...

In 2024, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health proposed targeting investment in 15 priority conditions through 19 modular interventions to improve global health by 2050. While pragmatic, this a...

This technical brief provides an overview of the landscape surrounding the use of AI in SRHR, and highlights the related risks, implications and policy considerations

Luchuo Engelbert Bain ,MD, PhD, FAAS. "Perhaps the greatest tragedy of Africa's epidemic preparedness challenge is not that we do not know what to do.

Martha Agbornyenty is building what global health keeps promising but failing to deliver — from Buea, Cameroon to the World. There is a fact about pregnancy that scientists confirmed only recently, and it is more radical than it sounds. Pregnancy is the most neurologically “plastic” period of a woman’s life — a period of extreme,

Genomic data could transform healthcare, but African populations are underrepresented, currently limiting benefits. Here the authors highlight how addressing political, financial, and social barriers ...

Learning from experience I wrote a short essay published in The Lancet Group on two seemingly different but deeply connected books, both of which, in different ways, are insightful, self-aware, self-...

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions within global health. Although women leaders have been shown to foster inclusive work environments and prioritize improvements in women’s health, the...

A meta-analysis using the Burden of Proof framework, based on systematic reviews of 214 studies, found that even small deviations from the haemoglobin range associated with the lowest risk, particular...

Precision medicine requires an evidence base that reflects women’s biology, demanding reforms in funding, study design, and sex-disaggregated reporting.

Climate adaptation policies should be comprehensive and outline clear structures to translate plans into action. We need evidence-based inclusion of diseases and health conditions linked to concrete s...

The World Health Organization is pleased to announce the call for expressions of interest for the third term of the WHO Youth Council, running from 2026 to 2028 and hereby invites organizations to sub...

Background The World Health Organization develops evidence-based recommendations for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention, detection, and treatment. However, persistently high PPH-related mortality ...

Labouring women may be subjected to physical and verbal abuse that reflects dynamics of power, described as Mistreatment of Women (MoW). This Critical Interpretive Synthesis on power and MoW consolida...

Dr Osman Dar writes about how one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo still has ramifications for its people today

npj Digital Medicine - A global call to action on the digital determinants of health