International Health

Global Health NOW's coverage from ASMTH's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 13–17, 2024—including briefs on mpox, Hansen’s disease, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and a walking tour through public health history.

Sara Bennett, PhD, assumed the role of vice chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Shannon Doocy, PhD ’04, replaces Bennett as director of the Health Systems Program.

By setting up shop in hosts’ tissues, Trypanosoma brucei can constantly change its protective surface coat and evade antibodies for long periods of time.
 

Even as regulations and bans seek to curb tobacco use, the tobacco industry is willing go to any lengths to keep its consumers hooked, even tapping into people’s cultural identity and pride.

Uganda—with shoreline on Lake Victoria, which has earned a reputation as one of the “most dangerous stretches of water” in the world—has one of the world’s highest rates of drowning. But the country is taking major steps to address the threat.