At the end of 2023, health was formally included on the climate agenda for the first time at the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28. That focus continued this week, as the World Economic Forum ...

When torrential rains from Cyclone Freddy unleashed a flood in Malawi earlier this year, the extreme weather event claimed more than 1,000 lives and upended the livelihoods of millions of people. The ...

Health systems face a myriad of challenges and surprises. Maintaining resilience is key to a functioning health system. Julie Sprengel, division president at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health joined ...

MetroHealth says it will finish 2025 nearly on budget, after a tumultuous year that stressed Cuyahoga County's safety net hospital and forced layoffs, office closures and restructuring resources. The ...

Over the last two years, Chhattisgarh has undertaken a steady recalibration of its public health system, with emphasis on primary care, workforce augmentation, and disease prevention.

Responding to rapidly changing climate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a new Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems. Released in the lead ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, ...

Redundancy and resilience are two foundational principles to ensure healthcare technology systems remain functional, particularly in the midst of challenges and disasters, like outbreaks and data ...

Today, mental health is an operating system running underneath work. Companies that fail to recognize this are quietly absorbing risk they don’t see until it’s too late. Most benefits are designed for ...