The 12th round of negotiations towards a global accord on handling future pandemics ended Friday without a final agreement, with rich and poor nations still wrangling over how to make it work. Here is ...

Healthcare workers (HCWs) played a critical role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Investment in global health research, prevention and preparedness has not kept pace with an increasing frequency and intensity of ...

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark moment in global health. It was the culmination of two major realizations by the international ...

A new virus catalogue reveals the terrifying pathogens most likely to spark the next global health emergency.

Mariana Lenharo is a news reporter for Nature based in New York City. Countries have failed to hammer out a global pandemic treaty by its original deadline, but there is growing optimism that an ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the most serious public health calamities in the last decade, causing global morbidity and mortality in the millions. The emergence of ...

The two-year effort to produce a global pandemic treaty did not meet its deadline. On Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, announced that the ...

Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US state legislatures are pulling back ...