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NPR interviews Maria Van Kherkove, the infectious disease epidemiologist who is a leader in the World Health Organization.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

At the World Health Assembly, 193 members nations voted to adopt a treat calling for better preventive measures and global cooperation. But there are still details to hash out.

In the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization, the agency is holding its first major meeting. How will that affect WHO -- and the United States?

Bangladesh suffers from extreme air pollution, but a new study shows the brick industry can make small changes to have a big effect on the country's smog problem.

Government forces retook the capital city from rebel troops in April. Now comes the task of rebuilding what was once a bustling metropolis on the Nile.

Nearly half a million people in Gaza now face starvation, according to a new report from the IPC, the international panel of famine experts who advise the United Nations.For more than ten weeks, Israel has halted the flow of humanitarian aid into ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

A former USAID worker has a new mission. She's hoping to connect philanthropists with overseas programs that have lost -- or are likely to lose -- their U.S. funding.

Last week, the Gates Foundation announced it would spend more than $200 billion over the next 20 years -- including nearly all the personal wealth of chair Bill Gates -- and sunset operations in 2045.The Foundation says its goals are combating ...