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The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark moment in global health. It was the culmination of two major realizations by the international ...

Global health and security will increasingly rely on the support of private sector actors, multilateral development banks, and local scientists, institutions, and entrepreneurs. While these local ...

Last week, the Trump administration rejected the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) — a global treaty that the United States has been a part of since 2007. The rejection ...

An NASEM committee will examine international health security programs, engaging experts from countries that actively sponsor such work to determine ways to improve global health security. The ...

The impact of the U.S. government’s sudden retreat on foreign assistance in 2025 has been most pronounced in Africa. For decades, African countries received the majority of U.S. global health ...

This article appeared in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health magazine. The WHO's declaration of smallpox eradication in 1980 was a high-water mark for public health.

Margaret Odera is a community health worker in Kenya. In 2006, she was diagnosed with HIV and nearly died of the virus before ...