Background Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly fatal haemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate that can reach up to 88%. The ...
The Alma-Ata ‘Health for All’ Declaration of 1978 emphasised community participation in health systems and the need to ‘bring ...
The publish-or-perish paradigm puts pressure on academics worldwide to produce internationally visible research, with journal ...
Background Users often regard the 2022 WHO verbal autopsy (VA) instrument as lengthy and time-consuming to implement, ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria, two of Africa’s largest and most populous nations, present unique yet ...
International donors are transnational actors that pursue various strategies to influence policy decisions in Global South ...
With his clarion call for ‘A World Without Measles’ in 2024, epidemiologist and immunisation specialist Jon Kim Andrus ...
Background Catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) poses significant financial burdens on households globally, particularly ...
Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) represents an essential shift in prioritisation for actions designed to ...
Theories of change (ToCs) describe how interventions can bring about long-term outcomes through a logical sequence of intermediate outcomes and have been used to design and measure the impact of ...
Epidemic intelligence efforts aim to predict, timely detect and assess (re-)emerging pathogens, guide and evaluate infectious disease prevention or control. We emphasise the underused potential of ...
Humanitarian needs are escalating globally, with around 300 million people requiring assistance—over half in Africa. These crises are increasingly driven by conflict, climate-related disasters and ...