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Thomas J. Bollyky, Bloomberg chair in global health at CFR, discusses recent changes to domestic and international health policies and the implications of a U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) on global health programs and international health coordination. Manisha Juthani, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, discusses how state health systems […]

Following recent U.S. policies to refocus development spending and engagement, including the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization, panelists discuss how the global health community can adapt its policies, programs, and financing.

In response to COVID-19, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been negotiating to create a pandemic agreement and to amend the existing International Health Regulations (IHR). The negotiations have been closely watched as indicators of global health diplomacy’s future in an increasingly divided world. On June 1, the WHO’s World Health Assembly […]

… very broadly. Francesco is Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the <em>World</em> <em>Health</em> <em>Organization</em> in Geneva. And I can say that I've worked with Francesco …

The <em>world</em> is already witnessing the consequences of human-caused climate change, including hotter temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent and severe storms. What’s harder to see are …

… protestors has been fifteen-years-old. The death of sixteen-year-old protestor Nika Shakarami, <em>who</em> activists believe died in detention, has become another rallying point. Girls in secondary schools …

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the <em>World</em> <em>Health</em> <em>Organization</em> is poised to declare a different disease, monkeypox, to also be a public <em>health</em> emergency of …

Introduction Once endemic in more than one hundred countries, polio today has a foothold in just two: Afghanistan and Pakistan. At its peak, the infectious disease killed or paralyzed hundreds of thousands of people annually, but breakthroughs in vaccines and public health programs have made remarkable progress. A 2014 decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it an international health emergency sought to buttress the global response, and the designation remains in place as health agencies work to eradicate the disease. However, there are challenges to vaccinating the world’s remaining unprotected children: some communities strongly oppose vaccination efforts, […]

… time, when America counts for so much. I know that when I go around the <em>world</em> and speak to many of my <em>health</em> minister counterparts they are thrilled to know …

Introduction It’s been two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, COVID-19. In that time, experts have put together a tool kit for how countries should respond to outbreaks, emphasizing that relying on any one tool won’t end […]

… one dose of either the Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer vaccine. The South African Department of <em>Health</em> has alerted the <em>World</em> <em>Health</em> <em>Organization</em> (<em>WHO</em>) to the emergence of a new variant …

Show Notes Nicholas Wade, former editorial writer, science reporter, and science editor for The New York Times, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the theory that COVID-19 …

Introduction What touched off the COVID-19 pandemic remains a mystery. Several dominant hypotheses exist, but each lacks sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the crisis. Experts have called for further investigation in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak is widely believed to have started. However, the scientific inquiry has been held up […]

Here we are in the middle of a global pandemic, but the WHO’s annual meeting can still abandon its responsibilities and divert into an assault on Israel. This is what happened on Wednesday, May 26, at the WHO’s annual meeting. It was not at all surprising that a group of Arab countries and various dictatorships—the […]