With climate change and environmental degradation, infectious diseases are becoming more common and are re-emerging worldwide. This Special Collection addresses epidemiological and mechanistic evidence of such change, with an emphasis on Covid-19. The papers in the Collection embody a “One Health” perspective and discuss issues specific to the Pacific Basin.
Despite advocacy, policies, and advances in gender equality women still experience inequitable gaps in the global health profession, particularly in leadership. This Special Collection examines an initiative to support emerging women leaders and offers recommendations for global health institutions.
At the heart of the decolonization of global health processes lies critical analysis of the interdependent matrices of power dynamics. As characterized by the articles in this special collection, reform of global health education can take the form of shifts in leadership structures, priority setting processes, knowledge/cognitive paradigms, financial arrangements, and curricular innovation.
The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) with the support from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), established the Resilient and Responsive Health Systems project to assist Liberia in strengthening the country’s health workforce and health systems.
Global Health Leadership Training programs can build capacity for country ownership through innovative strategies to bolster knowledge, skills and networks.
Ocean pollution is an important, but insufficiently studied component of pollution. Its human health effects are only beginning to be understood. This Special Collection examines the health effects of ocean pollution projects future trends, and offers evidence-based guidance for intervention.
This collection showcases work from the Intermediate Operational Research Training Program, a partnership between Partners In Health/Rwanda and Harvard Medical School to build sustainable clinical and epidemiologic research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused 9 million infections and 500,000 deaths. It has caused social devastation on a massive scale. This Special Collection examines the impacts of COVID-19 on global health and evaluates strategies devised to contain the pandemic.
This collection shares the passion of nurses and midwives for their profession, the power of their convictions, and their purpose in bringing comfort and health to their patients and communities. (Image credit: Seed Global Health)
The science and medicine academies of Brazil, Germany, South Africa, and the USA find the evidence associating air pollution to non-communicable disease to be unequivocal. They therefore propose urgent adoption of a new Global Compact on Air Pollution and Health.
This Special Collection presents reports and commentaries describing the growth in African health capacity catalyzed by the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) and sustained by the African Forum for Research and Education (AFREhealth).
Environmental pollution, occupational hazards and climate change threaten the health of people around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This Special Collection describes some of these hazards and offers solutions for their prevention and control.
This Special Collection examines the legal and ethical framework of Short Term Experiences in Global Health (STEGHs). The five papers presented here reach the unequivocal conclusion that STEGHs cannot allow or condone illegal or unethical practices. They must operate in full partnership with local institutions and in full compliance with local laws and customs.
This Special Collection examines the intersection between governance and public health. The report by Kavanagh and Chen and the accompanying commentary by Goosby show clearly that health aid provided to developing countries by the Global Fund not only improves health, but also strengthens governance, reduces corruption, and advances development.