On the eve of its 6th polio-free anniversary, India immunizes over 170 million children, despite a lack of roads, reinfection threats, and a periodic mistrust of vaccines.

Public healthcare experts have been anticipating and planning for a pandemic like COVID-19 for years. These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.

He made us feel better.

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. What exactly does that mean?

In the 1800s, sick passengers weren’t blamed for disease epidemics—their baggage and cargo was.

The containment of COVID-19 raises pressing questions related to the freedom of scientific information, civil liberties, and human rights, one scholar explains.

Scientists have different ideas about whether viruses are living beings. But they have solid advice on how to destroy them: wash up.

The first Black woman physician served communities in the South after the Civil War but was buried in an anonymous grave. That will likely change.

Four questions answered.

The fear of the next global virus isn't just media indulging in catastrophizing; it's a collective concern for global economic and political health.