The Trump Administration’s Decision to Cut Ties With the World Health Organization Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Much Worse Mark Leon Goldberg May 29, 2020 UPDATE: On May 29, Donald Trump formally announced that the United States was cutting with the World Health Organization. This followed a letter he sent to Dr. Tedros one week prior, threatening such a move. That letter was rife with mistakes and falsehoods, i...
How Will COVID-19 Impact Africa? The WHO Releases Pandemic Projections Joanne Lu May 12, 2020 So far, COVID-19 hasn’t hit Africa as hard as other regions, but a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts the worst of the pandemic is yet to come for the continent, and it may “smolder” for years. The WHO shared the main findings of the st...
Everywhere in the world women live longer than men. Why? A New UN Report Has Some Answers Joanne Lu April 9, 2019 Everywhere in the world – but especially in wealthy countries – women live longer than men. Why? According to the latest World Health Statistics Overview published last week by the World Health Organization (WHO), uneven access to health services is a major re...
Countries Around the World Just Pledged to Provide Decent Primary Health Care to All Their Citizens Alanna Shaikh, MPH October 30, 2018 Forty years ago, in the heart of Soviet Central Asia, the world made a groundbreaking commitment to health. The Alma Ata Declaration set the stage for global health as we know it today. It reaffirmed health as a state of being that means more than just not bei...
A New UN Report Finds that a Child Under the Age of 15 Dies Every 5 Seconds Joanne Lu September 21, 2018 Globally, children have a greater chance of survival than ever before. Yet because of growing inequality, in 2017, a child under the age of 15 died every five seconds, a new UN report says, and most of those deaths were preventable. The report published Tuesd...
UN Releases Alarming Data on Lack of Breastfeeding Worldwide Joanne Lu July 31, 2018 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are continuing to push for legal restrictions on how infant formula and breast-milk substitutes are marketed, after they found that an estimated 78 million newborns are not bei...
PODCAST: What We Know About Air Pollution Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg July 2, 2018 Air pollution is a major killer around the globe and one that disproportionately affects low and middle income countries. The World Health Organization estimates that around 7 million people die every year from the air they breathe. There are two kinds ...
WHO: Ebola Outbreak Response for the DRC is So Far Working Mark Leon Goldberg May 18, 2018 An Ebola outbreak has gripped parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization there have been 45 reported cases, 14 of which have been confirmed as Ebola. Of these 45 cases, 25 have resulted in...
The World Health Organization Wants You To Worry About “Disease X” Alanna Shaikh, MPH February 25, 2018 Every year, the World Health Organization commissions an expert committee identify the most threatening infectious diseases of the upcoming year. The idea is to prioritize research and development on diseases and pathogens that pose a major risk to global heal...
