In the Wake of Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic Could Get Much WorsePost-hurricane conditions are ideal incubators for cholera. And so far, thirteen people have died of cholera in Haiti since Hurricane...
Haiti – Will We Get it Right this time?Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Haiti yesterday. It killed several people, destroyed homes, roads, bridges, and rendered thousands of people...
With Hurricane Bearing Down on Haiti, Another Reminder that Climate Change is a Global InjusticeEd note. The worst Hurricane in a decade has just touched land in Haiti. Of course, any single weather event...
This deadly, child killing disease has just been eradicated from an entire hemisphereOnce in a while, the global health news is good. Today is one of those days. The Pan American Health...
Antibiotic Resistance on Pace to Cause Global Economic Damage Akin to the 2008 Financial CrisisEd note. This is a special edition of The Takeaway, a regular feature in which global health and development expert...
Report: Women in Africa face profound gender inequalities and those inequalities do great economic harm to individuals and nationsThe UN Development Program’s flagship report on development in Africa–the Africa Human Development 2016 report — was released this week. It focuses...
Collecting honest data on maternal deaths gives us the information we need to save women’s lives.Maternal death is one of the thorny problems of global health. Many different factors can cause a mother to lose...
Did farming practices in China create an antibiotic resistant bacteria that’s spreading around the world?One of the least reported global health stories of the last decade is the rises of bacteria that resist antibiotics....
Congress Has Failed to Fund Zika Response and Now, As Predicted, It’s Come to the USAThis week has seen the first reports of Zika in Florida and new reporting from the US Centers for Disease...
