Door-to-Door Hypertension Care in Dakar Brings a Pervasive Public Health Problem to Light
Many health workers in Senegal didn’t know what hypertension was or how to treat it—until now.
When Time Is Critical: How Involving Frontline Health Workers Can Improve Stroke Survival Rates
Here are three ways to change a system of acute care.
10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2019
From food security to the future of PEPFAR, here are some of the trends we’ll be watching closely in the year ahead.
Why Technology Isn’t Always the Answer in Global Health
We were so excited by the flashiness of the tools, we forgot our goal—to lower hypertension in Africa.
The Promise of Digital Health in the Fight against Noncommunicable Diseases
Could activity trackers help stem the global tide of hypertension?
3 Big Ideas Emerge from the 2018 World Health Assembly
Is the World Health Organization reembracing its original principles?
A Doctor’s Dispatch from Brazil
"Okay, doc, I'll do it, I'll do it." But he never did.
A Community Health Worker's Dispatch from Arizona
She was starving. She couldn’t help but eat the tomato.
A Registered Nurse’s Dispatch from Uganda
"They did not feel that medicine would help her. They were just waiting for her to die.”
10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2018
It’s not all bad news.