Just as individuals are aging with HIV, so too are entire societies. HIV treatment has reversed drops in life expectancy in many countries where PEPFAR and other global HIV/AIDS programs have worked. With this astonishing public health success comes a generational question: Will these added years of life translate to added years of health and well-being?... Read More »

The right to health is fundamental to the human condition, yet achieving sexual health remains an elusive goal. Rates of sexually transmitted infections continue to climb across the world, and with uneven access to effective HIV prevention methods. Anthropologically-informed public health analyses demonstrate the ways in which social and structural factors serve to sustain and... Read More »

Join the USC Center for the Political Future for a discussion about post-pandemic health inequities in America, moderated by CPF Director Bob Shrum. The panel features a range of speakers well-versed in public health, including Dr. Bradley Stoner, Sujeet Rao, Congresswoman Nanette Barragán, and Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global... Read More »

Digital innovations are often promising improvements to civil registration and national identity management systems. In practice, poor design and implementation, inadequate policy and mismanagement can trigger exclusion and pose serious new risks for vulnerable subpopulations. Efforts to explore and address these ethical and human rights challenges are often siloed because of disciplinary boundaries that make... Read More »

Technology, social media, and digital health interventions can have a transformative impact on gender inequalities in health. Public health interventions based on mobile and e-health models are gamechangers, especially in resource-poor settings. However, there are distinct geographic, economic, and social gaps in the design of and access to these technologies, including those related to gender,... Read More »

Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) is an award-winning Ugandan grassroots NGO and US registered non-profit founded in 2003 that promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people to co-exist with wildlife through improving animal health, community health and livelihoods in and around Africa’s protected areas and wildlife-rich habitats. Following a fatal scabies disease outbreak in the then... Read More »