Public Health

Cold Snap

Images of Europe in the full force of a deep freeze.

BY HANNA TRUDO | FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Little Economy That Could

If you're looking for an unlikely economic success story, you can hardly do better than Mauritius.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The Bioterrorist Next Door

Man-made killer bird flu is here.  Can -- should -- governments try to stop it?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | DECEMBER 15, 2011

Doing More with Less

Dwindling funding for the global fight against AIDS doesn't mean the battle is lost -- but it does mean we have to think about what we're getting for our money.

BY CHARLES KENNY | NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Doctors Without Borders

Letting medical professionals and other skilled workers from the developing world emigrate is a good deal for everyone.

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 11, 2011

Wanted: Smarter Patients

The key to improving medical care in the developing world isn't better doctors -- it's educating everyone else.

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Cultural Evolution

The baggage we carry from our ethnic and national backgrounds can keep people poor -- but it can also change, and faster than you'd think.

BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 8, 2011

Famine Is a Crime

Civilization has defeated mass starvation. So why are so many Somalis dying of hunger?

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 25, 2011

A Shot in the Back

The CIA's fake vaccination program in Abbottabad is an outrage. But what's important to remember is that even Osama bin Laden wanted to vaccinate his kids.

BY ALANNA SHAIKH | JULY 13, 2011

A Thousand Points of Light

When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011

Postcards from Hell, 2011

Images from the world's most failed states.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 20, 2011

Green Shoots in the Killing Fields

Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011

The Brutal Truth

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

BY STEWART PATRICK | JULY/AUGUST 2011

Through Rose-Colored Corrective Lenses

Poor vision is a major hurdle to getting ahead in the developing world. Fortunately, remedies are cheaper and easier -- and more profitable -- than they've ever been before.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 13, 2011

No Need for Speed

Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011

Life Lessons

How are children in Benghazi coping with war?

BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 15, 2011

Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.

BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011

The Civil War That Killed Cholera

Why the best ideas for fighting some diseases may come from poor countries, not rich ones.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 21, 2011

Meltdowns and Misinformation

What do we actually know about Japan's nuclear crisis?

BY JOSEPH CIRINCIONE | MARCH 18, 2011

Atomic Dogs

Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011

Identification, Please

In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.

BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011

FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better

An FP discussion on contributing editor Charles Kenny's new book: Are we winning the global war on human suffering?

MARCH 7, 2011

Iran Cracks Down While Egypt Cracks Up

Tehran is claiming that the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt reflect the heady days of 1979. Not so fast says the Green Movement -- it's 2009 that's a better parallel.

BY BARBARA SLAVIN | JANUARY 31, 2011

After the Break Up

Sudan has 99 problems, but secession isn't one.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 25, 2011

Africa's Epidemic of Disappearing Medicine

The global system for public health donations has a crippling accountability problem.

BY ROGER BATE | JANUARY 11, 2011

Great Expectations

The biggest problem with post-disaster relief efforts like Haiti's is the unreasonable ambitions we have for them.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 10, 2011

Let There Be Light

How a new kind of bulb will transform the developing world.

BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 13, 2010

Is the WHO Becoming Irrelevant?

Why the world's premier public health organization must change or die.

BY JACK C. CHOW | DECEMBER 8, 2010

Good Ideas For Bad Times

A look at the innovative thinkers and bold ideas that kept 2010 from being a total wash.

BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 2010

Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera

It's about a lot more than just clean water.

BY JOE AMON | OCTOBER 25, 2010