Personal Essays on Health

Contributors describe how global health has impacted their lives 

Migration
The front hall of the local government office in the village of Nychyporivka, around 100 kilometers Southeast of Kyiv.

Multigenerational Voices from the Wreckage of War-Torn Ukraine

by Elena Lesley

We should listen carefully to those under attack, and hear what they have to tell us

Governance
A health worker takes a break at a temporary field hospital set up by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) during the coronavirus pandemic

Crashes, Cop Outs, and COVID

by Mareli Claassens

A week in the life of a doctor from Namibia

A girl plays with a deflated balloon as she walks through smog in Delhi, India November 7, 2016.
Gender

The Missing Girls of India: A National Shame

A call to reform the institutions and cultural practices that perpetuate gender biases against girls

Life and happiness before the war. Holiday party at dad’s office. Sarajevo, December, 1990.
Migration

Notes from a War-Torn Childhood in Bosnia

"I fear for Ukraine's children"

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Poverty

Ill-Equipped to Heal

A personal story of COVID-19 in Kenya

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Poverty

The War on Childhood in Yemen

Halcyon summers have given way to famine, conflict, and loss

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Urbanization

I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

The unseen mental and emotional cost of the COVID-19 pandemic—chronicled in the journals of one emergency physician

Cancer patient Deborah Charles is seen through the tube of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner as she prepares to enter the MRI machine for an examination at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington May 23, 2007.
Gender

Cancer Doesn't Stop For You, Millennial

So don't skip out on your annual wellness exam, a young cancer survivor warns

Solidarity protest
Migration

"Last to Leave and the First to Die"

Afghanistan's LGBTQI+ community needs support