As Vandana Lodhi looks into the mirror to get ready for her work, she often reflects on how far she has come in the last five years, both personally and professionally. Vandana, 28, is a community health worker, or Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), and serves the people of Diwari Village in Madhya Pradesh, India.
A day in the life of a nurse and community health officer in Nagaland, India By Krithika Murali, Katherine Seaton, and Kritika Gupta with support from Ojungsangla Longkumer At 9 a.m., the Mopungchuket Health and Wellness Center in Nagaland, India, opens its doors and Nurse and Community Health Officer Rongsenlila Pongen and her dedicated team
To prepare for and help prevent the next pandemic, global health leaders assert that countries need well-equipped laboratories and experts who are capable of detecting dangerous pathogens and new variants in time to respond. These labs need to be capable of genome sequencing—a technology that determines the DNA or RNA sequence of an organism, enabling
