The Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has long been
one of the institutions at the forefront of the battle against infectious diseases in developing …

When its economy was booming, it used to be said that when the USA gets a cold, Europe
gets pneumonia. Now it presides over globalised insecurity. When Hong Kong gets …

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2010 made a major contribution to population
health by igniting a debate about how best to reduce human suffering and premature death …

Summary The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to global health; its
influence on international health policy and the design of global health programmes and …

In a widely cited consensus statement from 2009, global health was defined as “an area for
study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity …

In their Article, Eduardo González-Pier and colleagues1 estimate the magnitude of Mexico's
challenge to accomplish the committed goal on mortality reduction as a component of the …

Executive summary Health is central to the development of any country. Nigeria's gross
domestic product is the largest in Africa, but its per capita income of about₦ 770 000 (US …

Executive summary Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development
Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a …

With the growing importance of health in the global agenda comes the responsibility to
develop a scientific foundation of metrics and evaluation. The scope of this emerging field …