What happened to the radicalism that once motivated those struggling on the front lines of global health? The values embodied in global health were a credo for living, a kind of personal faith. But lo...

There is a stark reality underpinning the current health sovereignty debate:

Tobacco companies have helped to engineer and scale up the ultra-processed food (UPF) industry, developing addictive products that are driving obesity,

Neither Russia’s delegate banging her desk to interrupt Ukraine’s representative speaking at the World Health Assembly (WHA), nor her request to dismiss

As a public health doctor, I have spent much of my career thinking about what helps people and health services thrive.

Recently, I met with African nursing leaders who told me stories of nurses in countries such as Ghana and Nigeria earning the equivalent of only a few hundred

Global health is unfortunately not very global—a contradiction that becomes most evident at global health conferences. Although convened to advance the field of global health, these conferences often ...

There’s a number that stays with me.

Preliminary data from the OECD reveals historic ODA cuts, setting international aid back a decade. Civil society groups warn that the reductions will devastate funding for global health, education and social protection.

The UK Official Development Assistance programme allocations confirm that cuts to the aid budget will have a devastating impact on the health systems relied upon by the most vulnerable people around t...

This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-democracy fighters unable to risk government-run hospitals

UK’s bilateral aid to Africa, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

From Zimbabwe to Zambia, US health deals are raising fears of a new era of biomedical extractivism.

Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics

Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics

President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

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The US is pressing the UN to cut staff pay to ease its budget crisis. Unions in Geneva say compensation is being misrepresented, but other states are also warming to the idea.

In 2024 NHS staff reported working unpaid overtime equivalent to at least 49 000 full time employees. Such discretionary effort has long underpinned NHS service delivery, but recent data show it is de...

Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

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After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in. We spoke to Mitchell Warren from the New York-based HIV…

As the mandate of Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus approaches its expiration in August 2027, the high-stakes manoeuvring for the next WHO Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

“We must protect maternal health in fragile settings. That means investing in primary health care, protecting health workers and facilities, ensuring

By prioritizing primary health-care systems led by locals, the Lusaka Agenda can transition power back to Africa

A recent study outlines how health development assistance creates economic gains for donor countries