Kaiser Family Foundation—Faith Leaders, Americans Should Urge Congress To Fully Fund U.S. Global Health Programs

September 6, 2017

An excerpt from an article originally published in the Lexington Herald Leader—written by Josh Rouse, global outreach pastor at Northeast Christian Church and member of Hope Through Healing Hands’ Faith-based Coalition for Healthy Mothers &…

Quartz—Consequences of the 2017 version of US’ anti-abortion Global Gag rule

September 5, 2017

Uganda’s highway A-109 shoots across the plain from Kampala past the occasional storefront shops and open-air kiosks common to the continent’s roadsides. After rising into the verdant tea plantations of the country’s Western Region,…

Business Insider—HIV/AIDS is no longer the leading cause of death in Africa

August 24, 2017

The World Health Organization’s most recent data on global deaths has good news for the African continent, including fewer people dying of HIV/AIDS and malaria. The new death statistics researched by African fact-checking organization, Africa Check, indicated…

New York Times—How to Prevent Deadly Infection in Babies? Good Bacteria

August 21, 2017

It may be possible, scientists say, to save many thousands of newborns in poor countries by giving them a simple probiotic — a strain of bacteria originally scooped out of the diaper of a…

NPR—Nurse Wins Prize For Research On Benefits Of Faster Tuberculosis Testing

August 14, 2017

There was a time when Chenai Mathabire read Vogue, watched beauty pageants on TV and fantasized about being a supermodel. Today she helps the sick and injured as a nurse and epidemiologist. Last month, the…

NPR—Imagine: Facing Surgery Without An Anesthesiologist On Hand

August 10, 2017

In Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America, women and babies die when labor takes a complicated turn and there is no one to provide a cesarean section. Young people succumb…

The Conversation—The secret behind Rwanda’s successful vaccination rollouts

The best medical treatment option in the world can’t save a single patient unless it is delivered at the proper time, with the proper plans and processes in place. That’s why implementation science for health matters.…

Vox—Top Democratic, Republican health experts agree on this plan to fix Obamacare

August 9, 2017

A prominent and unlikely group of liberal and conservative health experts have authored an ambitious plan to fix the Affordable Care Act — and they plan to make a hard push for their ideas on Capitol…

The Price of Peace? Peacekeeping with Impunity Harms Public Health in Haiti

August 7, 2017

In April, 2017, the United Nations (UN) announced that it will withdraw peacekeeping soldiers from Haiti after 13 years there. Known by its French acronym MINUSTAH, the mission has been controversial in security terms, but…

Scientific America—Well-Maintained Bridges and Roads May Be Critical to Your Health

August 6, 2017

Aging infrastructure could have an adverse impact on public health. Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other. Health care reform has been…