Global Health Justice

March 19, 2026

Philip Nyakundi and colleagues at Global Financial Integrity released a report on 28 January 2026 that quantifies the enormous financial loss to African countries due to rich country corporations’ mis-invoicing the value of commodity transactions. The loss of resources and capital flight comes at great cost to public welfare and overall development. The total losses by mis-invoicing alone matches the combined total annual inflows of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Africa, meaning Africa loses as…

March 15, 2026

Analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) suggest that the new approach to US bilateral health assistance maintains much of the vertical programming that the original strategy was designed to eliminate. The America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) published in September 2025 stated that vertical programs resulted in “lack of coordination…..duplication, and missed opportunities to maximize and leverage investments across multiple diseases. This vertical disease-specific approach has also made integrating programs…

May 22, 2026

Centuries of enslavement and sustained violence have led to persistent, preventable disparities in illness and death that cannot be addressed by aid and development efforts alone. Meaningful recognition of harm and material redress are critical steps in the restorative justice process. Richardson et al. (2026) argue that reparative approaches should be context-specific, center affected communities, uphold dignity, and ensure non-recurrence. Acknowledgement is a critical first step in reparative justice frameworks for building healing processes and material redress for deep historical…

March 7, 2026

Reuben Granich, Somya Gupta, and Victoria Rose argue that the  systematic exclusion of politically sensitive causes of death, such as genocide, enormously underestimates the numbers and causes of childhood deaths worldwide. Genocide-related child deaths in Gaza represent one of the leading global causes of childhood mortality. They recommend recognizing and coding genocide as a preventable cause of death for accountability, accurate health metrics, and urgent humanitarian response. The authors state that although official reports cite 60,199 deaths in Gaza as…

April 11, 2026

This article from Women in Global Health examines the persistent gap between legal rights and lived realities for women, highlighting how shortcomings in implementation, access, and accountability continue to shape health outcomes. Drawing on global examples, it points to structural and institutional barriers, such as stigma, weak enforcement, and inequitable service delivery, that prevent rights from being realized in practice. It underscores that advancing women’s health requires moving beyond formal policy commitments toward systems that can meaningfully deliver on those…

April 9, 2026

What is often framed as a “humane” form of political pressure is, in reality, anything but humane. The crisis described in a recent New York Times article makes clear that blockades carry an enormous human cost, and that cost is paid first by those who are already most vulnerable: disabled people, the chronically ill, pregnant women, children, and the elderly. When oil blockades disrupt electricity, transportation, hospital services, and the delivery of essential medicines, they are not abstract policy tools;…