Diplomacy is a centuries-old tradecraft and art. The emergence of the internet just made it more interesting, more relevant, and more complex than ever before. On April 22nd in Washington DC, the Diplomatic Courier, United Nations Foundation, and the Digital Diplomacy Coalition held an event exploring the future of public diplomacy in the digital age. People around the world joined the conversation through Twitter and Livestream, bringing questions and insights from countries such as Nigeria, […]

April 25 marks World Malaria Day – a day to recognize the important progress we have made as a global community in combating this deadly disease, while also raising awareness and support to continue our work. Here are five reasons you should care about (and join!) the effort to fight malaria. 1. Roughly half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 3.4 billion people are

By Orin Levine, Director of Vaccine Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog. Like many parents, my wife and I eagerly documented the first few years of our daughters’ lives, excited to chronicle every milestone. We can dig out video footage of their first steps, and unroll the old growth charts where we measured their heights each year.

Reproductive health impacts us all, yet it is often an issue that is misunderstood and underreported. Why We Care is a platform to bring together a diverse array of U.S. and global leaders to write personal essays about their commitment to international reproductive health and family planning. Vanessa Kerry is one of the latest Why We Care essayists. She is a physician, the Chief Executive Officer of Seed Global Health, and the daughter of Secretary

By Janet Fleischman and Alisha Kramer, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Ethiopia has attracted global attention for its leadership in advancing family planning. In a new video, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center brings the voices of Ethiopian women and girls as well as champions of family planning into the U.S. policy discussion. Through the voices of rural women, health extension workers, and an Orthodox priest, along with an official of the Ministry of Health

With just over 600 days left until the target date to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, eight goals that make up the world’s “to-do” list to reduce poverty, it’s an important moment to reflect on where we stand on MDG 5, which calls for reducing maternal mortality by three-fourths. Today, the United Nations released new numbers that show steady progress is being made, but there’s still work to be done. Here’s what you need to

I have a 2-year-old daughter named Opal. Much like me, she never sits down — she was even “standing” in the womb. She was a rare type of breech called footling breech. Other than the extra pain of having a C-section, I didn’t think much about the delivery. While lying in the hospital, I didn’t wonder if the power was going to stay on or if the doctors could properly see what they were doing;