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Jane Cristina Dias Alves, 43, a nurse, a volunteer in COVID-19 vaccine trial for AstraZeneca, poses for a photograph in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 11, 2020.

Seeking Gender Equality in the Global Health Workforce

by Analyne Rapa Ignacio, Kim Sales, Reiner Lorenzo Tamayo

By adopting a gender perspective, policymakers can better address the challenges that women in the health sector face

Governance
A passenger wearing a protective face mask is seen from the window of a bus, after the provincial government started easing the lockdown restrictions and allowed to resume city public transport in Sindh, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

The Expansion of Virtual Emergency Care

by Chen Chen, Rahul Sharma

Phones, cameras, and call centers improve patients’ access to health care in Pakistan

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.
Governance

The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care

Nigerian surgeons in blue gowns and masks operate on a patient hidden beneath a blue sheet under a large surgical lamp in a room with blue walls.
Governance

Five Billion Reasons for Ramping Up Global Surgery

by Joshua Korn, Natalie Sheneman, Laura Hoemeke

Creating surgical and anesthesia capacity is a win for pandemic preparedness

A 52-year-old woman suffering from bladder cancer lies under a radiotherapy simulator used to pinpoint areas to treat at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra April 24, 2012.
Poverty

Cancer in Africa, a Financially Devastating Disease

by Naïmatou Moussa

A physician in Senegal shares her cancer story from "the land of universal health coverage"

Members of the Tongan community dance at a drive-through coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination clinic in Onehunga during a single-day vaccination drive, aimed at significantly increasing the percentage of vaccinated people in the country, in Auckland, New Zealand, October 16, 2021.
Governance

The End of New Zealand's Zero-COVID Policy

by Jennifer Curtin

Many worry it will magnify existing inequalities

A militarized approach to contact tracing is shown here as National Guard members at the Washington State Department of Health support contact tracing efforts in Tumwater, Washington—on May 20, 2020. The photo shows the guard members standing around a cubicle space talking. A table in the foreground is decorated with a drawing of a dinosaur and emblazoned with the words "I eat COVID-19 for breakfast. REUTERS/Jason Redmond
Governance

Contact Tracing Requires Building Trust

by Sandra Mullin, Denene Jonielle Rodney

As states gear up their contact tracing efforts, here’s how they should approach getting buy-in within their communities