The 12th round of negotiations towards a global accord on handling future pandemics ended Friday without a final agreement, with rich and poor nations still wrangling over how to make it work. Here is ...

Learn how the CDC and World Health Organization classify infectious health threats like COVID-19, influenza and Ebola based ...

The Trump administration has been negotiating agreements with dozens of individual countries. Public health experts say a ...

The patchwork systems of global and domestic monitoring for the next infectious disease threat should be expanded, linked and better funded; and public and private health agencies must improve ...

At the start of this month, it looked as though talks on a pandemic agreement — designed to prevent, prepare for and improve the world’s response to an event such as the global COVID-19 outbreak — ...

The two-year effort to produce a global pandemic treaty did not meet its deadline. On Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, announced that the ...

Health officials from around the world, as they gather to discuss a treaty addressing pandemic prevention next week, are struggling to agree on funding for developing countries and measures to thwart ...

As Harvard University professors warn, another pandemic is inevitable: “It’s just a matter of time.” Yet, international pandemic preparedness talks have stalled and major donor governments are less ...

The World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health authorities track disease outbreaks worldwide and alert the public about emerging health ...

Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US state legislatures are pulling back ...