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Coordinated international efforts may be key to improving the life expectancy and health of many snakebite victims.
Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
Taxing a food product like meat, which has been entrenched in our culture for so long, is silly. We should let the market evolve and allow consumers to make their own choices.
South Africa’s data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
People in countries that value autonomy highly drink more alcohol than people in countries that value tradition.
Unpicking the baffling case of how one of Africa’s dictators became the world’s top ambassador for non-communicable diseases – at least for a while.
As government representatives meet at the WHO global conference on noncommunicable diseases in Uruguay this week, their focus should be on reducing the health impacts of trade deals.
Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
India’s laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Surviving a hurricane in poor countries such as Haiti is no guarantee of surviving the secondary problem of cholera.
The World Health Organisation has pledged a long-term response to controlling the Zika virus because the threat is far from over
Research in Kenya’s capital found average levels of hazardous solid and liquid particles in the air within households were three times more than the WHO recommended maximum level.
How will the World Health Organisation’s Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa’s academics have some tips.
Cold War, dictators and cover-ups – Ebola’s secret history.
In the past year, 3,300 cases of measles were reported in Europe. Most of them were entirely preventable.
As the WHO calls for urgency to address antibiotic resistance in gonorrhoea, new research shows that a vaccine developed against an unrelated disease offers protection.
Almost one-third of human disease requires surgery, but most of those people who need surgery are not getting it. Here’s why we need to make surgery more accessible.
When it comes to fighting antimicrobial resistance, most of the focus is on bacteria. But we’d be foolish to forget about fungi.
A critical part of attaining universal health coverage is access to published research.
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor, Paediatrics, Cancer and related disorders, Epidemiology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures; former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
