The year 2011 brought with it a number of milestones for the global health community.

Despite real economic pressures and many competing priorities, across the world, governments, private companies, foundations, doctors, and individual volunteers worked to create a world where opportunity and hope are not crippled by poor health....

This autumn, as Congress enters tense budget discussions, U.S. taxpayers are asking legitimate questions. Amid economic instability and worries at home, Americans are scrutinizing where their tax dollars are going and who they are helping. In particular, Americans often ask, why do we spend so many of our tax dollars...

"Baseball and Malaria keep coming back."

So said famed baseball player and manager Gene Mauch. Our objective on World Malaria Day -- today, April 25 -- is to show that the second part of Mauch's statement no longer has the certainty of baseball.

2010 was the biggest year in...

I just returned from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. More than 2,500 business, civil society, religious, governmental and youth leaders, from "tech pioneers" to "young global leaders" to business tycoons. Bill Gates and Bono dropped by, too many prime ministers to count -- even...

Take a deep breath and hold it.

Do you remember the last time you had a cough or shortness of breath? For millions of kids in the developing world, seemingly benign common cold symptoms can be a death sentence.

Aung Soe was 2 years old when she developed...

In the time it takes you to read this post, another eight children in developing countries will have died from water-related illnesses. That, I think we can all agree, is no way to start the school year.

In fact, at least 1.6 million children from developing countries won't be...

In April, the Lancet released some encouraging statistics on maternal health: maternal deaths dropped from about 526,000 in 1980 to around 340,000 maternal deaths worldwide in 2008.
This is a decline worth celebrating, but not a reason to pull back; if anything, this study should drive us to do...

The world has poured billions of dollars into Africa in recent decades trying to address poverty, disease and malnutrition. We know that progress has been too slow, and too uneven.

Last week, many eyes were turned toward Tanzania, where some of the world's brightest minds gathered...

There are lots of "high-level meetings" in Washington, but this weekend's High Level Meeting on Sanitation and Safe Water for All deserves more than the usual cynicism. For the first time ever, Finance and Water Ministers from around the world are gathering together to focus on that most basic of...

For more than 20 years, PSI has worked in Haiti and with Haitians to help improve the lives of vulnerable populations there. The January 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince was devastating to our staff, knocked the wind out of our operations, and scarred the hearts of all of us who know...

I wanted to introduce you to one of my colleagues: Julius Lukwago, Director of Marketing and Communications at PSI's affiliate organization in Uganda, PACE. Julius has been working on PACE programs to improve maternal and child health since 2004 and he's currently leading our presence at the International Conference...

Did you know there was a "World Pneumonia Day"? It may not sound very exciting, but the toll this treatable disease takes on children around the world should make you sit up and take note. In the time it takes you to read this post, at least six more kids...

I was privileged to participate in the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town this month, along with the rest of the PSI (Population Services International) team. More than 800 leaders of business, government, civil society and the NGO world were in attendance, to talk specifically about meeting Africa's...

News about global health is often sobering. I'd like to highlight something the international community is increasingly getting right: tackling malaria.

We've been fighting mosquito-borne disease since 800 B.C. though - officially - the "global fight" started in 1955, when the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first Global Malaria...

Dirty drinking water has always been a problem -- a big one. In the mid-1800s, water-related diseases killed hundreds of thousands of Americans -- including our eleventh president, James K. Polk.

These days we take safe drinking water for granted. But unsafe water continues to kill -- and the...