by Madeleine Webb | Jul 13, 2026 | Global Health, Perspectives
Read The Full Report The eradication of smallpox, with the last natural case recorded in 1977, was transformative for global health in ways no one could have imagined at the time. This feat demonstrated that a single-disease focus, pursued at scale, could work, thus... 
by Madeleine Webb | Mar 12, 2025 | Global Health, Perspectives
The global health system is facing a moment of reckoning. The cuts to foreign aid from the second Trump administration— along with withdrawals from key international partnerships, and the weakening of cornerstone agencies like USAID, CDC, and WHO—have put decades of...