The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2000 to confront the world’s major development challenges.

Congratulations to Susheel Kumar Shrestha for submitting the winning image for the cover design of the final report! Shrestha, winner of the 2009 Smart Global Health Photo Contest, submitted a stunning photograph of a young child receiving a polio...

Rajeev Venkayya, Director of Global Health Delivery at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, explains the value of the Commission’s final report for both the U.S. and foreign governments. During this period of economic uncertainty when governments are debating...

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center and the International AIDS Society hosted Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who gave a presentation on the current status of HIV treatment and prevention. The presentation was...

We've received some very useful and insightful feedback to the essay, H1N1 Preparedness. If you'd like to add your own comments, please read the...

We posed the question, “What is the most important thing the United States can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?” You responded. Not only did we receive over 1000 submissions addressing many important issues, they came from all over the country...

The world faces enormous challenges in the global health arena, many of which have a disproportionate impact on women and girls. Many key global health priorities revolve in fundamental ways around the gender-related barriers that women and girls face in accessing...

On Thursday, November 19, please join CSIS and partners in commemorating World Toilet Day. While many people who have access to a toilet might consider this a humorous concept, the global sanitation crisis necessitates that a spotlight be shined on both the severity of the...

Stephen Morrison and Phillip Nieburg of CSIS recently co-authored a piece on uncertainties surrounding the H1N1 vaccine supply and President Obama’s decision to declare H1N1 a national emergency....

Below is an excerpt from "The European Approach to Global Health: Identifying Common Ground for a U.S.-EU Agenda."

The advent of the Obama administration offers an important...

With more than 4,500 deaths attributed to infection with the new H1N1 influenza virus, Latin America is among the world regions hardest hit by the 2009 influenza pandemic.

In 2007, a series of high-profile scandals involving contaminated blood thinner, toxic toothpaste, and melamine-laced pet food demonstrated the threat that unsafe food and drug imports pose to U.S. public health and international trade.