WHO: More than 3 billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food “Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2…

AP: Pope uses mask, sanitizer as he appeals for public health (9/9). New York Times: A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’? (Wu, 9/8). New York Times: At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror (Ismay, 9/8). Science: Why COVID-19 is…

UNAIDS: UNAIDS is hopeful that a new long-acting HIV prevention option will soon become available for women in sub-Saharan Africa (7/28). UNICEF: A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says (7/29). Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: At the Intersection of…

AFRICA Al Jazeera: Morocco bans travel to and from major cities to curb coronavirus (7/27). BBC News: Coronavirus: How fast is it spreading in Africa? (Mwai/Giles, 7/27). PRI: Africa must invest ‘in human capital’ to fight the coronavirus, says Africa CDC director (7/27). ASIA AP: Volunteers came to the rescue…

Houston Chronicle: WHO unveils Florence, the world’s first digital health worker to combat smoking and COVID-19 myths (Stewart, 7/27). Devex: South Sudan pilot program links humanitarians with local faith groups (Jerving, 7/28). Devex: Has water as a human right moved from a resolution to reality? (Root, 7/28). The Guardian: ‘We…

Devex: Q&A: Tackling the global NCD burden (7/27). Devex: Q&A: Taking on NGO leadership in the COVID crisis (Cornish, 7/27). Devex: How to empower health workers: Lessons learned from ‘On the Frontlines’ (Donback, 7/24). Global Press Journal: Cervical Cancer Claims Lives as Hospital Backlog Grows in Zambia (Phiri, 7/26). Global…

Borgen Magazine: Aid Efforts to Support Healthcare in Venezuela (Wallace, 7/22). Devex: Does WASH need a global leader? (Root, 7/23). Devex: DFAT data insights: Funding COVID-19 (Cornish, 7/22). Devex: How mapping skills can drive progress on the SDGs (Cheney, 7/22). The Economist: The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will…

AP: First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne ills (Marcelo, 7/20). Cancer Health: Cancer and HIV Groups Urge Trump Not to Remove U.S. From the WHO (Straube, 7/20). Devex: U.N. forum offers ‘sobering’ vision of SDGs progress and new virtual reality (Lieberman, 7/21). Scientific American: Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk,…

Foreign Policy: The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Transform How Vaccines Are Made Saad B. Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health (7/16). The Lancet: No more normal Editorial Board (7/18). The Lancet: Offline: COVID-19 and the dangers of Sinophobia Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet (7/18). The…

The Atlantic: A New Understanding of Herd Immunity (Hamblin, 7/13). Borgen Magazine: 5 Facts About Aboriginal Children Facing Obesity in Australia (Shusterman, 7/11). Devex: One Health approach could be Australia’s contribution to the COVID-19 response (Cornish, 7/13). New York Times: How Koalas With an STD Could Help Humanity (Gross, 7/13).…