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Explore the latest public health research and insights about International Health.

An illustration of two scientists. One is sitting at a desk looking into a microscope. The other is walking away with their arms full of lab equipment.

A child of colonialism, global health began with the export of Western concepts of health and medical care—and the protection of colonizers from local diseases. Here’s how committed insurgents in the field are overturning those lingering perspectives.

Public Health Magazine
Entomologist Limonty Simubali stands in front of the “mosquito house†in Macha, Zambia, on March 30, 2022.

The parasite-mosquito-human nexus spawns an incredibly complex disease challenge. Successes against malaria often don’t last, nor are they easily replicated. Yet.

Public Health Magazine
sther Sambiri, left, stands with fellow vaccine advocates outside the Nyanga, Zimbabwe, district government office on Dec. 16, 2021. Image: Farai Mutsaka

4,000 young volunteers are spreading across Zimbabwe, knocking on doors and encouraging their peers (and skeptical older people) to get the HPV vaccine.
Global Health NOW
Edith Bracho-Sanchez interviews a source in Tijuana, Mexico in 2019. Image: Courtesy

It is only a matter of time before the next deadly infectious disease wreaks havoc somewhere in the world. Do we respond like we did when we stopped smallpox? Or do we prolong the crisis and create collateral damage such as xenophobia and lost jobs, as we have done in…

Global Health NOW
COVID-19 Vaccinators talk with residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The next White House Global COVID-19 Summit is a chance for advocates to push for investments to end the pandemic, including expanding access to existing tools and accelerating innovation.

Global Health NOW
A health worker prepares a vaccination certificate after administering a COVID-19 vaccine in Bimbo, near Bangui, on November 15, 2021. Image: Barbara DEBOUT / AFP via Getty

When the Ebola virus was ravaging West African countries in 2014, health care providers, public health researchers and activists worked feverishly to stamp it out before it spread and turned into the type of life-shattering pandemic we’re all too familiar with today.

Global Health NOW
Sunrise in the Transkei region in Eastern Cape Province, one of the poorest and most rural of South Africa’s 9 provinces.

CAPE TOWN – When minutes mean the difference between death and life, chances that rural South Africans will survive a stroke are slim. The lack of specialist care and tools such as MRIs or CT scanners in rural areas mean many patients will never receive the diagnosis or…

Global Health NOW

International Health Faculty Experts

Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of International Health? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

 

Judd L. Walson
Professor
International Health

Judd L. Walson, MD, MPH, is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist who works to improve child survival, growth, and development in low- and middle-income settings.

Melissa Marx
Associate Professor
International Health

Melissa A. Marx, PhD ‘02, MPH ’98, evaluates maternal, child, and infectious disease programs, and has led response efforts for outbreaks including SARS, Ebola, and COVID-19.