The Lancet Global Health

The cover of the December 2025 issue of The Lancet Global Health, featuring a colourful image of an informal settlement in India, with people sitting on the ground outside, talking. Image credit: Adam Cohn.

Our December issue is now live! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring:
👉🏻 The global burden of sepsis
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👉🏻 Violence against women in informal settlements
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👉🏻 Equitable RSV prevention in infants
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I am incredibly privileged to have led the #AccountabilityinAction project with Obinna Onwujekwe and the wonderful team in Health Policy Research Group, Uni Nigeria. How does the group acts on health sector corruption? A thread
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Where there's the will, there's a safe roadway Nov 16, 2025 marks the UN's 20th World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Addressing the burden of road traffic deaths is not dependent on access to medicine, identifying mechanisms, or a gr...

I wrote this month's @lancetgh.bsky.social editorial, on the burden of road traffic deaths, 90% of which occur in LMICs and are the leading cause of death for 5-29yos, with a simple message - we know how to fix this www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

EuTYPH-C Inj.® Multi-dose demonstrates strong safety and immunogenicity: Results now available from a Phase 3 study

#JustPublished in @lancetgh.bsky.social: results from a Phase 3 clinical trial of #EuBiologics’ typhoid conjugate vaccine. The vaccine demonstrates strong safety & immunogenicity—a crucial step toward a sustainable supply of lifesaving typhoid vaccine. https://bit.ly/47HyvVe

#TakeOnTyphoid

Effect of maternity care improvement, fertility decline, and contraceptive use on global maternal mortality reduction between 2000 and 2023: results from a decomposition analysis Our analysis suggests that both improved maternity care and fertility reduction, primarily through contraceptive use, substantially reduced maternal mortality globally. Accelerated efforts should be g...

Just Published: "Effect of maternity care improvement, fertility decline, and contraceptive use on global maternal mortality reduction between 2000 and 2023: results from a decomposition analysis", S. Ahmed, M. Ali, I. Shah, & A. Tsui. @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #icfp25

Minister Padilha, Dr. Massuda and Dr. Simão on Brazil's expectations for COP30 - The Lancet Regional Health Americas in conversation with In this episode, our editor Taissa Vila talks to Dr. Alexandre Padilha, Brazil’s Minister of Health, Dr. Adriano Massuda, Executive Secretary of Health, and Dr. Mariângela Simão, Secretary for Health ...

With COP30 around the corner, we interviewed the Brazilian Health Minister and his team to know what Brazil is bringing to the discussion table on this historical #healthday @ #COP30.

🎙️Listen here: bit.ly/47FNUUv

The cover of the November 2025 issue of The Lancet Global Health, featuring a photograph of a group of African women seated on the ground and smiling. Some are breastfeding babies.

The November issue is now live! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Post-partum haemorrhage
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Impact of breastfeeding on the global burden of NCDs in mothers and children www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Vaccine ecosystem in Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations Global health research is generally done by researchers, whether locally or internationally, based in locations other than the study locations and by people with more power than the marginalised group...

Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations - The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Classifying a distinct form of diabetes in lean individuals with a history of undernutrition: an international consensus statement Since 1955, a form of diabetes in lean, young (BMI <18·5 kg/m2, age <30 years) individuals with a history suggestive of undernutrition from before birth and throughout childhood has been described in ...

Published in @lancetgh.bsky.social
Classifying a distinct form of #diabetes in lean individuals with a history of undernutrition: an international consensus statement www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#OpenAccess

#MedSky #EndoSky

Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas on type 5 diabetes

In our latest podcast, Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas discuss a “lost” condition, which they name type 5 diabetes. Listen now to explore the fascinating history of the disorder and the urgent need for effective treatments. open.spotify.com/episode/3mSY...

Financing policies to sustain improved prevention, control, and management of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions All countries have pledged to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions, but financing has not followed. This Health Policy summarises the background research...

Pledges have been made to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) & mental health conditions—but financing has not followed.

Ahead of the #UNGA high-level meeting on NCDs, explore 7 key actions to improve financing & health outcomes: tinyurl.com/49vnsxad @lancetgh.bsky.social

The October 2025 cover of The Lancet Global Health, featuring a photograph of a Sikh man shopping in a grocery store

Our October issue is now live! lnkd.in/eezpGTwq
Featuring:
👉 An Editorial on the burden of NCDs among people of South Asian heritage www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
👉 A Comment urging global health policy makers to recognise obesity as a disease www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#HLM4

Artificial-intelligence-based peer reviewing: opportunity or threat? As new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to be developed and launched at a breakneck pace, editors are grappling with the dual opportunities and threats that such innovations present ...

Sept 15-19 is #PeerReviewWeek and the theme is "Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era". So, can computers review global health research papers? Find out what we think in our Editorial from earlier this year:
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Promotional graphic for a Lancet Webinar featuring Zoe Mullan, Editor in Chief of The Lancet Global Health. The webinar, titled 'Reporting race and ethnicity data in Lancet journals: a pathway to improving health outcomes and equity in research and clinical practice,' will take place on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST. The graphic includes a portrait of Zoe Mullan on the right and text details on a dark blue background with subtle pinstripes. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

Please save the date for a Webinar entitled "Reporting race and ethnicity data in Lancet journals: a pathway to improving health outcomes and equity in research and clinical practice"

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST

Sign up here: hubs.li/Q03GrTGb0

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Attending the World Health Summit #WHS2025 in Berlin? Paraminder Dhillon, Senior Editor, invites you to reach out with enquiries. Explore our scope, reach & impact, commitment to publishing excellence, & more: hubs.li/Q03BL5DX0
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New #opendata in #globalhealth: "Data from: The impact of aid sanctions on maternal and child mortality, 1990–2019: A panel analysis" from researchers Ruth Gibson, Paul Wise, Joseph Dieleman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social et al 🧪

DATASET: bit.ly/3I6fdhY
@lancetgh.bsky.social ARTICLE: bit.ly/4ggEhQ7

Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked Humanitarian crises have evolved dramatically in scale, duration, severity, and complexity since Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971. In 2024, over 120 million people were forcibly disp...

#MSF in @lancetgh.bsky.social - "Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Promotional graphic for a Lancet Webinar featuring Zoe Mullan, Gavin Cleaver, Lan-Lan Smith, and Taissa Vila. The webinar, titled ‘The importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender,' will take place on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT. The graphic includes portraits of the speakers and text details on a dark blue background with subtle pinstripes. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

Please save the date for a Webinar on the importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender:

Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT.

Sign up here: hubs.li/Q03FR1wP0

The cover of the September issue of The Lancet Global Health, featuring dark-skinned men in hazmat suits carrying a body bag against a backdrop of destroyed buidings. Image credit: Ebrahim Hamid / AFP.

The September issue is now live!
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Featuring:
👉 Our Editorial on restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers
👉 Estimation analysis of war-time mortality in Sudan
👉 The global burden of cancer attributable to HIV

First page of the article entitled "Efficacy of non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying or intensive behaviour change communication in combination with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control in west Africa: a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled trial"

🚨 New publication!
Our RCT in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso & 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire shows that adding either non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying (IRS) or intensive behaviour change communication (BCC) to LLINs reduces #malaria burden.

In @lancetgh.bsky.social :
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#GlobalHealth #VectorControl

Published in @lancetgh.bsky.social earlier this year, the report presents the first global estimates of medical oxygen need & access gaps.

This session will share Commission findings & recommendations to save lives & prepare for the next respiratory pandemic.

Register now: union2025.urevent.fr

First page of article titled Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations"

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

Obesity is a disease: global health policy must catch up Obesity is a chronic, biologically driven, and progressive disease. It contributes to more than 200 health conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and multiple cancers.1 Yet in global ...

⚖️ Obesity recognised as a disease?

A new @lancetgh.bsky.social commentary urges global policy to treat obesity as a chronic disease, integrate care into health systems, and tackle stigma alongside prevention.

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#SciComm 🧪 #Obesity

The cover of the August issue if The Lancet Global Health featuring a photo of authors Anil Fastenau and Paul Saunderson during field work in Pakistan. Image credit: Syed Aamir Mustafa Shah.

The August issue of The Lancet Global Health is now live!
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Featuring:
👉 Anti-corruption in health
👉 Global burden of kidney failure with replacement therapy
👉 Leprosy in Pakistan

Factors associated with health spending inefficiency Strongly associated with EFFICIENCY: gov, pharmaceutical, social protection spending; democracy, accountability, rule of law, regulatory qual, gov stability, gov effectiveness; all preventive care factors (vaccines, ANC, skilled birth); all infrastructure factors (electricity, pop density, roads, health workers) Strongly associated with INEFFICIENCY: prepaid private spending, development assistance for health; gov corruption, education inequality

📃🩺🧪🌏Remarkable paper in @lancetgh.bsky.social on factors associated with health-care (in)efficiency.
🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
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Announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on anti-corruption in health: a call for a novel approach

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🚨 New Lancet Global Health Commission on Anti-Corruption in Health: Corruption - an institutional failure & a global threat
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#GlobalHealth #AntiCorruption
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Reduced international donor funding through not only the termination of #USAID, but also announced reductions in donor pledges to #TheGlobalFund from other countries, could lead to substantial potential impacts on #TB morbidity and mortality.

Read how in our new study in @lancetgh.bsky.social 👇

Climate change and health: the next challenge of ethical AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the world's most resource-intensive digital technologies, but the environmental impact of AI on health remains largely unaddressed in both global health and bioe...

🌍 Climate cost of 'ethical' AI?

A new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper warns that AI in health is worsening climate harms; fuelled by water use, emissions & extractive tech.

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#SciComm #EthicalAI 🧪

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social:

bit.ly/3TDl28T

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📢in @lancetgh.bsky.social we show heavy catastrophic health expenditure burden in people with chronic respiratory disease symptoms,Meru #Kenya.🔍 Of 296 adults,26% had #CHE (health costs>10% household expenses),CHE more likely in females & if seeking care accompanied or at sub-county/county hosps.