From outbreak containment to clinical innovation, African nations are setting new global standards for success

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

Alt: GIF of Mei from Totoro laying face down on the mud in the pouring rain. Mood.

Physician shortages in the United States are projected to worsen, especially in rural areas. The authors argue that broad reforms, including changes in education and compensation, are needed.

Since the 2014–2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there have been numerous proposals and promises to reform global health infrastructure. Yet inequity remains deeply entrenched.

We are female health-care workers standing on the front line of the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda. We worked in the emergency, intensive care, and Marburg virus disease isolation and treatment units during the outbreak in October, 2024. We took on the roles of caregivers, tirelessly feeding, bathing, and comforting our colleagues and family, amid the unfolding crisis. Our days were shadowed by an intense fear—monitoring ourselves for symptoms even as we continued to care for others.

Genomic analyses from the ongoing outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Rwanda point to a single zoonotic origin of the outbreak.

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.