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The obstacles that keep many nurses out of leadership roles are systemic, structural, and age-old.

By Dr. Mariam Reda, Chemonics Last month, the first Global Health Security Conference 2019 (GHS2019) took place in Sydney, Australia, gathering more than 800 participants from 65 countries to discuss strategies to advance global health security through partnerships, research, academia, inclusive...

Authors: Kristen Devlin and Kim Farnham Egan, JSI According to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, at least half of the world lacks access to all essential health services. In pursuit of the goal of universal health coverage, countries are developing strategies to reduce health...

Community members are partnering with frontline health workers to fight the cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

By: Dr. Vanessa Kerry, Co-founder and CEO, Seed Global Health A stark example of the entrenched barriers to nursing leadership was made evident to me on a trip to meet with partners from leading training institutions. We were to discuss ways we could collaboratively advance medicine, nursing, and...

Health workers around the world need blood to save lives. But access to safe blood is not universal. For Blood Donor Day, join our member American International Health Alliance and its partners in Ukraine to raise awareness of the need for blood donations throughout the year.

A new report by our members and partners brings together the voices of more than 2,500 nurses and nurse-midwives from 117 different countries on the topic of gender and leadership.

This Women Deliver, Population Council take a close look at female community health workers and the integral role they play in holding up health systems all over the world.

This World Menstrual Hygiene day take a look at some of the tools and practices that frontline health workers around the world use to help women understand the menstrual changes that can take place in their body while using hormonal contraception.

Conventional wisdom tells us that change takes time, but I would argue it is time to be impatient. We must challenge ourselves to be intolerant of the perpetuation of the two standards of care that exist in the world today; it results in unnecessary loss of lives and destruction of communities. Dr Vanessa Kerry says it's time to be impatient to achieve health equity!