The COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly disrupted the global delivery of preventive health care services, as a large number of governments have issued state of emergency orders halting service delivery.

Adequate nutrition during pregnancy is crucial to both mother and child. Maternal malnutrition can be the cause of stillbirth or lead to poor birth outcomes such as preterm delivery and small-for-gestational-age newborns.

The variety of demands that people place on water resources, coupled with the dynamics of the natural system, make water resource management highly complex.

Objectives: Experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes for women. However, rigorous economic evaluations of interventions targeting IPV prevention are rare.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected several economic sectors in India, dragging many to the brink of survival.

Measures to slow down the spread of Covid-19 have had profound effects on the food and nutrition security of poor and marginalised households and communities.

Food systems hold the key not only to food security, but also to plant, animal and human health, as well as environmental sustainability.

This article argues that the Intensity Ratio is an inadequate indicator of research effort and a misleading conventional measure. Researcher Alejandro Nin-Pratt proposes an alternative index to measure R&D intensity. 

There is growing interest in the potential of women’s groups to improve health.

From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions.

This note summarizes perceptions of COVID-19 impacts and risks from a panel phone survey of rural households in eight districts in rural Malawi.

COVID-19 has impacted urban and rural households throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change.

Gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have been a topic of interest for a long time, but little is known on trends or geographic variability in recent periods.