The abrupt halt to U.S. involvement in the World Health Organization has caused considerable and immediate uncertainty for ...

Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

The World Health Organization has begun fixing priorities and announced a one-year limit on staff contracts, an internal memo ...

The Trump administration has officially ended at least four of five United States-funded Ebola contracts in Uganda.

Despite scientific advancements made during the COVID pandemic, growing vaccine hesitancy and the politicization of public health leave the U.S. vulnerable to future pandemics, according to experts ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and ...

Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ...