Living Longer

Some of the biggest emerging health challenges we face include chronic and non-communicable diseases that are affecting developing countries more than ever. We’ll explore how communities might work to bring them under control, while still expanding access to vaccines and other life-saving early interventions.

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How to help us live longer — and better — lives

For us to live longer and better lives, a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach is needed that targets at-risk populations, encourages healthy behavior and empowers communities to drive change.

Lessons learned from the Hib initiative

Dr. Rana Hajjeh, division director at the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and 2014 U.S. Federal Employee of the Year, offers insight and advice in the wake of one of the most comprehensive vaccine initiatives in the development world.

Fighting NCDs in the post-2015 world

It would take more than including NCD targets in the post-2015 agenda to effectively prevent incidences of these so-called “diseases of developed countries.” So how can the development community rally around the fight against NCDs? We spoke to a few global health experts.

Let's harness the power of open innovation to tackle NCDs in Africa

A collaborative approach to medical research can stimulate new ways to tackle health challenges — that's why GlaxoSmithKline's is about to launch a call for proposals to fight chronic diseases in Africa. A guest commentary by GSK's Mike Strange and Moffat Nyirenda, professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

For aid to Ethiopia's autistic, the numbers don't add up

In Ethiopia, support for autistic children is sparse. The few organizations that do provide services face a difficult paradox: students require highly individualized, focused attention and low staff-to-child ratios, while most donors want to see big beneficiary numbers before they agree to give funding. A feature by Devex's Michael Igoe.

#HealthyMeans tackling chronic disease

Efforts to address chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease need to be scaled up dramatically in the post-2015 agenda, writes Jeffrey Sturchio, president & CEO of Rabin Martin.

In Africa, tobacco presents a looming threat to healthy living

Without comprehensive tobacco prevention and control policies, smoking prevalence in Africa will increase nearly 39 percent by 2030. Is the continent staring down an impending health crisis? FHI 360's Dr. Peter Lamptey weighs in.

It's time to turn the tide on worldwide epidemic of cancer

Where you live shouldn't determine if you survive the growing tidal wave of non-communicable diseases, writes the American Cancer Society's Sally Cowal.

An unparalleled opportunity to improve the health of the most vulnerable. Will we take it?

The emerging post-2015 global development agenda should focus on the health of children below 5 and require free, universal civil registration, writes Dr. Mesfin Teklu Tessema, World Vision's vice president for health and nutrition.

Facing down the TB-diabetes co-epidemic

The world is facing down a global co-epidemic of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis, with the World Health Organization estimating as many as one million people live with the co-infection. The executive director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease explains the scale of the challenge ahead.

Weighing dollars and 'sense' of health care priorities

Ebola has shown how "rapidly and powerfully" we can mobilize against a looming health crisis — let's do the same for a crisis that is already here, writes Kenneth Thorpe, chairman of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease.

The next 'transformative change' leaders in global health

Global health is undergoing “transformative change” — and that change isn’t just led by pharmaceutical and medical device companies, says Derek Yach, executive director at Vitality Institute for Health Promotion, in this video interview.

Healthy workplaces: A smart solution to a global health crisis

The growing prevalence of chronic diseases represent the defining global health challenge of our generation — let's enlist the private sector in turning the tide, writes Nalini Saligram, founder and CEO of Arogya World.

Can the BRICS bank rally global outcasts around TB treatment?

Countries like Russia or North Korea are facing emergency-scale epidemics of tuberculosis, but their pariah status isolated them from top donors. We learn how the emerging BRICS bank could change that and start pouring in funds to treat multidrug-resistant TB.