There are roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 living in the world today. Despite growing up in wildly different national, economic, and cultural circumstances, their underlying goals tend to be the same: dignity, real opportunity, meaningful participation, and a future wor...

Nina Paoliello is a nursing student from New York. She is also a single mother of two, returning to school later in life, and someone who has spent years working in patient care before deciding to pursue her BSN. She is, by any measure, someone who already understands what it means to show up for ot...

A new mother in a highland community outside Huancayo has delivered her baby at home. There was no lactation consultant in the room. No postnatal nurse to check the latch. No one to answer the questions that arrive in the first hours of a newborn's life, the ones that determine whether breastfeeding...

Every 30 seconds, someone in the world dies from complications related to chronic hepatitis — including cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Not because the tools to prevent it do not exist. Effective vaccines, accurate diagnostics, curative treatments for hepatitis C, and long-term therapies for hepatitis ...

 In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded America's first volunteer fire brigade after a ship fire tore through a wharf, warehouses, and neighboring houses in Philadelphia. Twenty-six neighbors signed up. More followed.

That instinct, to organize, to show up, to solve a problem together rather than wait ...

Every June 24, something extraordinary happens across the Andes.

Everything begins very early, when the entourage of the Inca and the Qoya set out in procession. In the gardens of Qoricancha, a ceremony greeting the sun is held with the music of quenas and drums, the most spiritual moment, with the...

A woman in Bududa has had headaches for months. She assumes it is exhaustion, she wakes before sunrise, tends to her crops, cooks, cleans, and cares for four children. She has never had her blood pressure checked.

In Huancayo, a man in his forties has not seen a doctor in years. The nearest clinic ...

712 women die every day from preventable pregnancy-related causes. Most of them never saw a doctor. Many of them saw a nurse — or saw no one at all.

In most health systems, nurses are the first point of contact — the ones who assess, triage, educate, comfort, and follow up. In low-resource communit...

There's a version of Mother's Day that doesn't make it onto greeting cards.

It looks like a woman in Huancayo walking two hours on a mountain trail to reach the nearest health post. A mother in Bududa navigating childbirth in a facility that lacks the basic equipment her situation demands. A first-...

Soap and water. That's it.

Of all the interventions in public health, handwashing consistently ranks among the most effective at preventing infectious disease — respiratory illness, diarrhea, healthcare-associated infections, even maternal sepsis. It costs almost nothing. It requires no prescriptio...