The Globalist

What the history of developing the Polio vaccine teaches us about the current search for a COVID 19 vaccine.

How the supreme leaders of Iran and the U.S. handled the COVID 19 challenge: A short comparative study

From Israel and Pakistan to India, ultra-conservative communities have emerged as virus-spreading clusters. This is not helped by governments reluctant to disrupt ultra-orthodox life by enforcing public health measures.

Saudi women will continue to suffer a decline in physical and mental health, beyond their lack of social, economic and political status.

Using television to spread public health messages.

A push to vaccinate 45 million children, despite Boko Haram’s brutal insurgency, pushed Nigeria off the endemic list.

The share of people globally who are overweight or obese is increasing rapidly.

The future of health care in the United States could be highly dependent on the nation’s average waistline.

The developing world’s obesity rate is gradually catching up with developed nations.

More than half of the world’s obese population live in just 10 nations.