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A community health worker adds chlorine to water while internally displaced people gather to fill their buckets at the water point in Muna Garage IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on October 23, 2022.

The Future of Community Health Workers in Global Health

by Tom Frieden, Chen Chen, Krishna Jafa

Over-performing, but under-utilized

Poverty
Ugandan medical staff inspect the ebola preparedness facilities at Bwera General Hospital near Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Bwera, Uganda, on June 12, 2019.

Ebola in Uganda

An interview with emergency physician and Ebola survivor Craig Spencer

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Governance

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

Public transport bus staff offers hand-sanitizer to a passenger who is about to board the bus on the first day of the easing of the lockdown measures during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Lagos, Nigeria May 4, 2020. The photo shows a bus driver dispensing sanitizer to passengers as they board. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
Urbanization

Shifting Front Lines in West Africa

by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson 

Leveraging community health promoters to protect vulnerable populations against COVID- 19 and other threats in Nigeria

The shadow of a girl receiving an evening meal from a humanitarian service center is cast on a wall in front of her family home in Russeifa, Jordan, on April 28, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Picture shows the girl's shadow on an old wall. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
Governance

The WHO We Need for the Next Pandemic

by Nina Sun, Joe Amon

The World Health Organization should be more independent, collaborate with NGOs, and increase emphasis on human rights