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As COVID-19 affects people worldwide, we've collected CPD's top content on the role of strong PD in the name of global public health and community.
Tara Ornstein on why the effort to end TB's global toll requires the combined strengths of public diplomacy and health professionals.
Tara Ornstein writes that triumphant messages about people who overcame tuberculosis is effective global health diplomacy.
Tara Ornstein shares the method of engaging leaders via public-facing campaigns in the fight to end tuberculosis.
Russia’s position as a high-burden country for tuberculosis makes its global health diplomacy efforts all the more important.
Taiwan's health minister on Monday accused China of playing politics with health after Taiwan was blocked from taking part in the annual meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization for the first time since 2008. Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung lashed out at China's actions, which Beijing said was taken because Taiwan's year-old government has reneged on the "One China" principle.
WHO and UNFPA are scaling up primary and reproductive health services in eastern Mosul to ensure life-saving care for more than 60,000 people living near the front lines. Two WHO mobile medical clinics were deployed to eastern Mosul as soon as access was possible, marking the first time that health aid reached people in the area since June 2014.
In an earlier post, I speculated that preventing a Zika virus epidemic would rally transnational diaspora organizations. Since then, concern has grown among U.S.- and Canadian-based diasporans, especially those with roots in Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and other Latin American countries. Caribbean American and global media are featuring stories and public service announcements on the outbreak, but so far, I have observed no major non-governmental diasporan response.