The Pandemic Agreement, just adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a landmark for global public health. Had such an agreement been in place before 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would have ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, officials declared a national emergency, triggering travel bans for non-U.S.

Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health organizations in Flagstaff are continuing measures to respond to community health needs. These are mostly continuations and expansions of ...

“I’m overwhelmed, overjoyed!” These were the words of Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) group tasked with negotiating the first global treaty on preventing and ...

When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments ...

Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, at a briefing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in St. Paul, Minn. Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, ...

American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the ...

In an era when so many view artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool, virologists are sizing it up to potentially predict the next pandemic. AI shows potential in helping global health experts detect ...