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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacteria that causes severe infections in hospitalized patients.

Foods and beverages rich in salt, sugar, calories, and saturated fats, but deficient in micronutrients, have flooded Indian food markets.

Food systems lie at the intersection of nutrition, population health, environmental sustainability, and climate change.

COVID-19 has exposed the multidimensional connections between economic forces, public policies, and social inequalities.

West Africa, like most low- and middle-income countries, faces the triple burden of malnutrition.

There is growing recognition that more research is necessary to understand the role of human-made and natural environments in the global emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Globally, bloodstream infections are a significant cause of clinical morbidity and mortality estimated to cause several hundred thousand deaths annually worldwide.

A number of countries and international organizations have stressed the need for integrated surveillance systems to comprehensively detect and monitor antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in animal and environmental reservoirs.

Southeast Asia is in an economic and demographic transition whereby increasing income is not accompanied by improved nutrition.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes are the leading cause of death globally.

If action is not taken, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will cost $100 trillion and claim 10 million lives annually by 2050.

Diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to rise in Bangladesh, disproportionately affecting women, children, and the poor.

The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a significant health challenge for Sri Lanka.

South Africa has sub-Saharan Africa’s highest levels of obesity, with approximately 70% of women and 30% of men in South Africa either overweight or obese.

Asia has undergone a rapid socio-economic transition that is linked to a large-scale change in dietary patterns towards high-energy and low-nutrition food products.

Low and middle-income countries are experiencing the burden of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, largely driven by increasingly unhealthy food environments.

Recent outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous Ebola virus in West and Central Africa underscore the importance of rapid diagnostics and surveillance infrastructure, evidence-driven health communications and community engagement activities, and an effective and well-coordinated emergency response to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in the face of emerging pandemic threats.

The project’s overall goal is to produce a solid evidence base on which to build a strong public intervention for universal access to healthy food in Senegal.

In Ecuador, rural people, and particularly rural Indigenous people, are disproportionately affected by nutrient inadequacies, obesity, and overweight.

Aedes mosquito-transmitted illnesses, namely dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, have become a major burden of disease in Latin America and the Caribbean, where vector control programs have not been able to reduce the risk of disease transmission.

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a steady increase in the consumption of ultra-processed food with high levels of fat, sugar, and salt has contributed to an adult overweight rate of over 50% and an obesity rate of 23%.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent the leading cause of death globally and were responsible for 70% of the world's 56 million deaths in 2015.

Recently, discussions about collaboration and partnerships between public and private sector actors have entered the global health discourse, particularly to help deliver results towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.

In response to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Kenya, the Ministry of Health launched the Kenya National Strategy for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2015-2020.

As confirmed by the WHO’s guidelines on risk communication and community engagement issued for the 2018 Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research is a critical component to both outbreak control measures and future preparedness activities.