Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Battle Lines: Global Health Security is a weekly video podcast about health and security, from bioweapons to war zone diseases to ...

The recently unveiled America First Global Health Strategy represents a fundamental reorientation of US engagement in global health, framed as a ‘new playbook’ designed to safeguard US lives, ...

According to a modelling study in the Lancet Global Health, physical activity is set to drop as temperatures rise – and the shift could lead to more than half a million deaths every year by 2050.

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development was absorbed into the Department of State. We assume this isn’t news to any readers. As USAID’s former administrator under the first Trump ...

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 ...

Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the field of global health into a state of fear and uncertainty. Once a crown jewel of US foreign policy, valued at some US$12 billion a year, ...

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 ...

A Bloomberg School alumna with more than 25 years of global health leadership experience, Bear succeeds Leslie Mancuso, who led the Johns Hopkins affiliate for more than two decades ...

The first obligation of any government is to keep its people safe. This is generally interpreted as support for the military and police, yet, even in times of war, more people die from preventable ...