The 2020 Global Health 50/50 report shows that privileged older men from elite institutions in the global north call the shots in global health. Global health needs to be global and diverse.

Former and current employees accuse Dr. Lucica Ditiu, leader of Stop TB, of harassment and bullying. The complaints threaten to slow prevention efforts worldwide.

Combating the tuberculosis epidemic means confronting its social and economic roots

Background Tuberculosis (TB) research is a key component of the End TB Strategy. To track research output, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of TB research from the past decade. Methods The Web of...

In a Guest Editorial, Madhukar Pai discusses the need for high-burden burden, middle-income countries to take a leading role in tuberculosis research.

Global health is about big saves and big goals. But in the race to save lives, the field of global health tends to ignore burnout. Burnout was a concern before the Covid-19 pandemic, and might get...

A Juneteenth pledge to continue the ever-changing march toward anti-racism, ending oppression, and achieving justice

The field has come a long way from its colonial past, but global health still falls short of being diverse and inclusive

(Purse) Strings Attached

This op-ed examines the action and structural changes needed at senior leadership level, drawing on experiences of racism from working at the headquarters of two white-dominated development organiz...

Antiracist language is one way to explicitly consider ethnicity and racism within our institutions, both during the pandemic and beyond Millions of people have been deeply moved by the Black [...]M...

Like many of you, I’ve been thinking a lot about power and privilege lately. Only that hasn’t taken the shape you might expect. You see, I don’t have as much interest in or energy for rehashing all...

Women comprise 70% of health workers around the world. And yet a new report shows that 70% of health organizations are currently headed by men, and that the women working in these organizations earn...

Funding in the development sector continues to fail women: too little is changing too slowly, because women do not have an equal role in decision-making, write Dr. Roopa Dhatt and Rachel Firth in...

By Colleen Daniels

While activism involves external efforts to bring about systemic change in society, intravism involves internal efforts to change organizational structures, this op-ed explains.

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There has been much talk recently in BMJ Global Health , in other journals, and on social media platforms, about equity in global health research. But there has been little guidance on how to write...

The words we use in NGOs and aid agencies draw imaginary lines between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ stifling our imagination.

I thought I was doing my job, focusing on training, diversity, and inclusion at a major aid group. Then I was accused of “reverse racism”.