After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York will join a global alliance of institutions focused on global health preparedness and response. The New York Department of Health has ...

Superintendent who survived 2004 school shooting moves to statewide policy role The superintendent of the Greenville School District is heading to a statewide role.Michael Bennett has been appointed ...

It is vital that our Legislature vote no on House Bill 3, which seeks to carve out special protections for unregulated pregnancy centers (UPCs) by shielding them from oversight. The practices of these ...

Illness is part of being human. How we deal with it is human, too. So Pope John Paul II established the Vatican World Day of the Sick in 1993 on the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11, to ...

A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute evaluates the impact of a voluntary code intended to improve ethical recruitment of physicians from World Health Organization-designated ...

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Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

City health authorities are joining a network that counters new pathogens and emerging outbreaks. By Joseph Goldstein Two weeks after the Trump administration formally withdrew the United States from ...

What does it mean for Illinois residents that the U.S. has left the WHO but the state has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network? The United States withdrew from the World Health ...