Vital

News & commentary about the global health workforce

11 Billion, Ready or Not: We Need To Put Family Planning on the Fast Track

By 2100, the world’s population will rise to 11 billion. But that doesn’t mean family planning investments aren’t working.

5 Questions with WHO’s Jim Campbell

We talked with the director of the WHO’s Health Workforce Department during his visit to North Carolina’s global health belt.

3 Ways To Invest in Interoperable Health Information Systems

These are the paths that will lead us beyond lofty goals and onto practical action.

After Fifty Long Years with Obstetric Fistula, Two Women Reclaim Their Dignity

They spent most of their lives with the condition, but now two septuagenarians in Mali are healed—and they’re on a mission.

Global Health and Tech Thinkers Come Together at SwitchPoint

From pandemic preparedness to gender equality, here are a few standout moments from the 2018 event.

A Do No Harm Framework for ICT4D: Inspiration from SwitchPoint 2018

The issue of data ethics isn't new to international development—but it all feels a little more urgent now.