After three years of intensive negotiations, the World Health Organization on Tuesday adopted the world’s first agreement on how to cooperate and respond to future pandemics — without the support of ...

Then-President Joe Biden declared the covid-19 public health emergency over in April 2023, but the pandemic's impact on health care systems can still be seen. Then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic weaknesses in our disaster preparedness infrastructure. Despite prior warnings, politics and apathy nurtured a response system that prioritized appearances — e.g ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020, veteran immunologist Rafi Ahmed quickly grasped that his field was about to experience something ...

COVID-19 Response: From March 2020 to February 2022, the World Bank allocated more than $1.4 billion to enhance pandemic preparedness, directly benefiting millions of people across 22 countries in ...

This is a guest essay for Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. In January 2020, countries around the world were forced to confront a ...

Pandemic preparedness in fragile and conflict-affected states is shaped less by technical deficits than by enduring political, institutional, and security constraints. Protracted conflict, chronic ...