Global health hasn’t historically engaged much with mental health. It tended to be seen as a luxury, or an issue to be taken on only once the important issues were addressed. Even suicide didn’t get a lot of attention. That’s...
This is the latest installment of our Takeaway series in which Alanna Shaikh breaks down the latest and greatest reports about global development Getting cities right is the key to our global future. The majority of the human population already...
Ed note. Welcome to The Takeaway, a regular feature in which Alanna Shaikh unpacks the latest think tank and government reports on global development People have been predicting wars over water for the last two decades. And while we haven’t...
Global health spends a lot of time focusing on people. How we transmit diseases to each other, and how illness and disease affect our bodies and our lives. What often gets left out is the context of our human lives....
Education has been one of the lingering problems of global development. We have somehow managed to make huge strides in getting children enrolled in school without actually increasing the amount that children are learning. In development-speak, the focus has been...
Protecting women from HIV is one of the enduring challenges of the global response to AIDS. The most effective method – using a condom – isn’t a method a woman can chose alone. She is forced to negotiate with her...
Zika is a virus that spreads via mosquito rather than person-to-person. Historically it has been confined to a narrow area around the equator in Africa and Asia. It almost never leads to death, and its symptoms are usually mild or...
Melioidosis is a little-known bacterial infection that affects both humans and animals. It responds to very few antibiotics and is fatal up to 40% of the time. It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention because we believed it was rare,...
The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the most terrifying under-the-radar issues in global health. All of our superstar drugs are becoming less effective. In Southeast Asia, 98 percent of gonorrhea bacteria are now resistant to penicillin –...
