The HIV/AIDS epidemic was still raging in early 1995 when Rochelle Walensky was an internal medicine resident at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA. “As interns, we were...

It was the news from Wuhan, China, in the first days of 2020 that made Sarah Gilbert sit up and think. As Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford in the UK, and a leading scientist at...

Since 2016, Loyce Pace has been President and Executive Director of the Global Health Council (GHC), a leading membership organisation supporting and connecting advocates, implementers, and stakeho...

Rani and Abhay Bang have recently celebrated 43 years of marriage together, mostly spent addressing the previously neglected public health needs of Gadchiroli, one of the poorest and tribal parts of...

Uché Blackstock's father, a Jamaican immigrant, arrived in New York State, USA, aged just 17 years. “Like many young immigrant men, he had a variety of jobs”, she recalls, “he was a mechanic, a...

The world has changed in the year since the American Medical Association (AMA) named Aletha Maybank as its first Chief Health Equity Officer and founder of the AMA's Center for Health Equity,...

Devi Sridhar has travelled far in her fairly short career. She was the youngest Rhodes Scholar, aged just 18 years, and became Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, UK,...