As shown by COVID-19, infectious diseases with a pandemic potential present a grave
threat to health and wellbeing. Although the International Health Regulations provide a …

Global health is fashionable. It provokes a great deal of media, student, and faculty interest,
has driven the establishment or restructuring of several academic programmes, is supported …

All roads lead to universal health coverage—and this is our top priority at WHO. For me, the
key question of universal health coverage is an ethical one. Do we want our fellow citizens …

At the World Health Assembly in May, 2022, 194 member states debated amendments to the
International Health Regulations (IHR), the current global framework for preparing for and …

Public health represents society's organised and publicly supported efforts to improve the
health status of the entire population; its focus is on the reduction of health inequalities by …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several international initiatives have been
developed to strengthen and reform the global architecture for pandemic preparedness and …

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 …

Although astounding improvements have been made to human wellbeing over the past 40
years—increased lifespan, reduced under-5 mortality, maternal deaths, and extreme …

Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect
business interests—their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the …

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 …