global health

Photo credit: © 2014 M Ponir Hossain, Courtesy of Photoshare Photographer: M Ponir Hossain Climate-affected internally displaced persons board a boat to travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh. FXB director Dr. Jennifer Leaning has long been concerned about…

Rohingya in a New Delhi Refugee Camp,Courtesy of Syed Saad Mahmood By Arlan Fuller Over the past three months, the Myanmar military has led a violent campaign targeting the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and currently shows no signs of relenting.…

A free nanocourse* on health and human rights will be held at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in July 2015. The short course will focus on the region sometimes referred to as the “Global South”: Latin and South America, Africa, Eastern…

June 3, 2015. We now know that the toll of maternal death is far higher than generally assumed. This means that the drop in maternal mortality seen in some countries over the past decade is not by itself sufficient measure of the success of efforts to…

By Rima Jolivet May 18, 2015. In an important development for the global maternal health community, the long-awaited Strategies toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) will be launched at the 68th World Health Assembly, at an event hosted by…