Healthcare Workers – Global Health Reporting Center

First-of-its-kind program trains ‘climate doctors’

As record heat, wildfires and flooding become increasingly common in Colorado and beyond, the University of Colorado is training a new generation of what it calls “climate doctors.” The University’s Climate & Health Program prepares physicians to treat the health impacts of climate change in individual patients, while also advocating…

Covid-19/Epidemics

Ebola finally defeated, Congo faces COVID-19

In June, the WHO announced the good news that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was over. But now, the country is grappling with a new health challenge: COVID-19.…

Culture & Community/On the Front Lines

A Diary From The Frontline: Sheena

Sheena Williams is a nurse at one of Philadelphia’s biggest hospitals and an overnight Instagram celebrity that finds herself at a crossroads between COVID-19 and nationwide protests against police brutality.…

Culture & Community/On the Front Lines

A Diary From The Frontline: Giuliana

Dr. Giuliana Battagin, an infectious disease doctor in a small city near Venice in Italy, tested positive for COVID-19 as she was watching case numbers skyrocket in her small hospital.…

Culture & Community/On the Front Lines

A Diary From the Frontline: Ali

Alison Harris, an Operating Department Practitioner at a regional hospital in England, currently works solely on the COVID wards, focusing on intubating critically ill patients. This role is new for Harris.…

Culture & Community/On the Front Lines

A Diary From the Frontline: Davey

Dr. Davey Smith, a Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at UC San Diego, firmly believes that a scientific response is the only way out of this pandemic, specifically by conducting rigorous clinical trials, in his case the hot topic drug - hydroxychloroquine.…

Covid-19/Culture & Community

Holme: A Foreign Correspondent’s Return Home to Cover Covid-19

Once it was clear Covid 19 was going to hit the UK hard, I decided to head back to where I grew up to report on it, to the Holme Valley in West Yorkshire, England. Large parts of my career have been spent covering wars in the Middle East, Ebola outbreaks in…

In The Lab

New hope in fighting the world’s most infectious killer

Last year, around World TB Day on March 24, 2019, scientists announced the discovery of a promising new drug that proved effective against treating drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. A diagnosis that in the past would have meant sure death, now is an illness curable in a matter of months. TB…

Epidemics

Profiles: Dr. Soka Moses on the Front Line of Ebola

Dr. Soka talks about his experience during the Ebola outbreak of 2014 in Liberia and the challenges he faced as he just graduated from medical school 2 years ago.…

Epidemics/On the Front Lines

War and misinformation in DRC’s Ebola battle

PBS NewsHour Piece Part I…