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What the U. S. Should Have Learned From Past Ebola Outbreaks
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (422+ words) Analysis: What the U. S. Should Have Learned From Past Ebola Outbreaks In 1995, a year into my assignment to West and Central Africa for the New York Times, I was pulled away from covering one of the conflicts then raging in that…...
The Next Pandemic Will Come From a Conflict Zone
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (512+ words) Argument: The Next Pandemic Will Come From a Conflict Zone As delegates met this week in Geneva to debate pandemic preparedness at the World Health Assembly, an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda was once…...
Trump, Inequality Threaten Global Health Efforts
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (238+ words) But while the Trump administration's moves are perhaps the most high-profile symptom of the geopolitics of inequality, these geopolitics were already wreaking havoc on a great many governments. Multiple states also blocked action on debt, which crowds out fiscal space…...
There Is a Solution to the Global Health Care Crisis
1+ week, 3+ day ago (609+ words) Argument: There Is a Solution to the Global Health Care Crisis Kantono survived because the system had a skilled health worker present and able to act. In many places around the world, that is not the case. Today, health systems…...
War, Pandemics, and the Struggle for Healthcare Security
1+ week, 5+ day ago (526+ words) Argument: War, Pandemics, and the Struggle for Healthcare Security Among the many reckonings prompted by COVID-19 was the painful realization that countries are highly dependent on imported medical supplies. Half a decade later, that dependence remains. Now, as hantavirus spreads,…...
Pete Hegseth Is America's New Secretary of Pestilence
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (374+ words) Argument: Pete Hegseth Is America's New Secretary of Pestilence Kangxi, the great 17th-century emperor of China, owed his throne to smallpox. His father had died of the disease at just 22 years old in 1661. Kangxi, only 7 years old, had been chosen…...
The Path Toward Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (219+ words) Podcast: The Path Toward Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases Season 1 "|" Episode 7 Then, host Henry Bonsu speaks with Dr. Ngozi Erondu, the technical director of GLIDE, the Global Institute for Disease Elimination. She describes which diseases she thinks are most likely to…...
Can Sierra Leone Still Keep Its Mothers Alive?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1338+ words) The Full Story: Can Sierra Leone Still Keep Its Mothers Alive? The Full Story is a partnership between Fuller'and Foreign Policy. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone'Sonita Kamara is in obstructed labor, a life-threatening complication where the baby cannot pass through the birth…...
From Awareness to Action
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (226+ words) FP EVENTS: From Awareness to Action | March 12, 2026 | Partners | Register " " Registered Advancing Early Detection and Integrated Kidney Care On World Kidney Day, Foreign Policy, in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim, will host a high-level virtual dialogue bringing together clinicians, patients, policymakers, and…...
How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (612+ words) Argument: How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections Get audio access with any FP subscription. Monday marked the start of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, recognizing what may be the greatest threat to human health'which starts at birth. The…...