In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N'beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia and Amadu gently explained ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

This article appeared in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health magazine.The WHO's declaration of ...