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Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change
According to the latest Global Burden of Disease study, an estimated 1.17 billion people worldwide were living with a mental disorder in 2023, nearly twice as many as in 1990. Over the same period, mental disorders rose from the twelfth to the fifth...
Banner for World Mental Health Day, Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change

Unmasking the Appeal: Countering Tobacco and Nicotine Addiction
Globally, adolescents are now nine times more likely to vape than adults. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 15 million young people between the ages of 13 and 15 already use e-cigarettes, and more than 100 million people worldwide...
2 hands with smoke around wrists like handcuffs, a pack of cigarettes and an ashtray.

Calling for Country-Led TB Responses: World TB Day 2026
According to the latest data from the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report, the world has seen sustained global progress addressing TB. In the period from 2015 to 2024, more than 100 countries achieved at least a 20 percent reduction in the incidence of TB...
Red paper cutouts of lungs next to the letters TB.

How Health Journalists Communicate Global Health Impacts

In 2025, health systems around the world faced many disruptions when changes to U.S. foreign aid policy led to the freezing, cancelling, and clawback of billions of dollars in global health funding. In December, the Pulitzer Center hosted a virtual...

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Stepping Up for Universal Health Coverage
According to the new Tracking Universal Health Coverage Report, in 2023, an estimated 2.1 billion people experienced financial hardship due to health costs, while 4.6 billion people—more than half the world's population—lacked access to essential health...
Wooden toy people underneath an umbrella, the symbol of universal health coverage.

Facing Disruption, Responding to HIV/AIDS
The world has come a long way on fighting the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. According to the 2025 Global AIDS Update, at the end of 2024, approximately 1.3 million people newly acquired HIV—40 percent fewer new infections per year compared to 2010. However...
A hand holds a red ribbon, the symbol of HIV/AIDS awareness. World AIDS Day, 1 December.

“Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future”: Act Now on AMR
The rise of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the top global health concerns of today. It occurs when disease-causing microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve traits that allow them to survive microbe-killing drugs. When...
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Diabetes Prevention and Care for All Ages
Chances are, you know someone with diabetes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 14 percent, or about one in seven adults were living with diabetes in 2022. In 1990, the prevalence of diabetes in adults was half of that—only 7 percent...
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Protecting Mental Health in Emergencies
Living through an emergency takes a mental health toll. This is true for nearly anyone affected by emergencies, whether that emergency is more acute, like a natural disaster, or if it’s long-term, like living in a refugee camp during a period of conflict...
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Exploring Contested Realities
First launched in 2013, Global Studies Outreach at Harvard is a collaboration amongst regional and internationally focused centers and programs at Harvard that share a commitment to educational outreach. The primary goal of this collaboration is to help...
GSOC workshop attendees.

Decision Science for Public Health Multimedia Workshop
Teaching fellows from the course Decision Science for Public Health, RDS 202, offered in Spring 2025, joined faculty director Sue J. Goldie and senior scholar in residence Eve Wittenberg for a multimedia storytelling workshop focused on visual teaching...
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