A new special issue of Health Research Policy and Systems sets out what happened when a range of countries worked to adapt and translate World Health Organization health systems guidelines to their ow...

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

How Germany turned voluntary action into a decade of delay on sugar regulation

Health taxes are powerful policies to reduce the consumption of harmful products such as alcohol. Well-designed alcohol taxes that are set high enough to raise retail prices substantially can help gov...

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

NGOs say agreement held back by tenuous human health commitments and lobbying from plastic industry

Abstract. Fiscal policy tools are cost-effective for curbing unhealthy consumption, but unlike the extensively studied cases of tobacco and alcohol, the po

Itai Bavli and colleagues argue that the growing use of AI by commercial industries is creating new opportunities to influence health, and an AI commercial determinants of health framework may help to...

With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

Dépaysement, mobility, and the practice of global health

International donors are transnational actors that pursue various strategies to influence policy decisions in Global South countries. In addition to conditionality, which typically involves imposing p...

This policy and practice article examines the growing alcohol-related public health burden in low- and middle-income countries and analyses how lessons from tobacco control can inform the development ...

Temperatures of 95-105F (35-40C) are expected, spanning Gulf of Mexico coast to the Great Plains and the midwest

On this day 80 years ago – 22 July 1946 – nations emerging from the devastation of the Second World War chose cooperation over division. They signed the Constitution of the WHO, founded on a bold and ...

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion. But it d...

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Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is a relatively young and multidisciplinary field of applied and policy-relevant science. It bridges the worlds of research, practice, and advocacy, and is...

Karolinska Institutet has now launched the first version of its own journal list, KI-JL, in which scientific journals are level-graded based on peer review. The list is intended to support researchers...

More than 50 countries are gathering this week on Colombia's Caribbean coast to launch a coalition for phasing out fossil fuels, as a fourth month of war in

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier research-to-policy institution, generating evidence, strengthening research and related capacity in the African research and development ecosystem, and engaging policy to inform action on health and development. APHRC seeks to drive change by developing strong African research leadership and promoting evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) across sub-Saharan […]

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

Using an integrative spatial Bayesian framework that merges high-resolution environmental pesticide risk modelling with comprehensive cancer registry data, this analysis reveals spatial patterns of pe...

Plans include new taxes and scrapping free spousal coverage to plug funding gap

Climate change is impacting health, social systems and livelihoods of populations across the world with sub-Saharan Africa being particularly hard-hit. Lived experiences of the impacts of climate chan...

A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Most research fails not because the science is poor, but because the systems surrounding it are misaligned with how scientific evidence is produced, used, and sustained.

Global health architecture as we know it is at a structural inflection point. In this Perspective, Ebere Okereke discusses priorities for sustainable progress, including restoring country agency, stre...