The best Global Health newsletters

First-person visual and narrative essays documenting the impact of US funding cuts on HIV programs and the people who run them, reported from places like Pretoria and Entebbe. Issues combine on-the-ground reporting, analog photography and reflections on advocacy.

The Xylom is a nonprofit investigative outlet covering health and environmental disparities worldwide, with its newsletter sending collaborative reporting and site updates. Recent issues include a reported investigation into contaminated tap water in Kano, Nigeria, and an explainer on lightning deaths in India and the mobile alerts that can save lives.

Geneva Health Files is a subscriber-supported newsletter covering global health policy, especially WHO negotiations and Geneva-based governance, with in-depth analysis, commentary and curated roundups. Readers get expert-oriented reporting on geopolitics, elections and institutional reforms affecting global health.

A newsletter from ONE Data that analyses global development, aid and public finance decisions using data, with first-person field anecdotes and policy analysis. Recent issues cover a new Development Finance Observatory data platform, development finance reform, and trends in child survival.

A Belgian digital health writer's newsletter examines AI in healthcare, from Anthropic's expansion into African medicine to sovereignty and the economics of tech giveaways. It draws on the author's years at IBM Watson and in digital health to argue for open, small, clinician-owned medical AI.

A personal blog by a biomedical philanthropy leader tracking progress toward ten global health technologies he hopes will exist by February 2029, such as at-home multiplex diagnostics and strep A and TB advances. It also covers science funding and hiring in global health R&D.

Watsi's blog shares staff profiles, essays on philanthropy and global health funding, and reflections from interns on the organization's mission to bring healthcare to people who lack it. Readers get an insider view of how a crowdfunding nonprofit thinks about where donations go and whether they actually help.

Threadings. is an essay newsletter by Ismatu Gwendolyn that uses wordplay on the word thread and the author's own name and heritage to frame a project about reshaping the engineered world. The sampled issue is an artist statement that defines key terms and introduces the author's background in poetry, photography and scholarship.

Updates from Rainbow for Africa UK on its point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training for frontline health workers in western Kenya, including training schedules, medical camps and a Rotary-funded simulation lab at MMUST. It also promotes a 10th anniversary charity ball and fundraising, so readers get project progress and event information.

The Tej Kohli Blog is a personal blog by Tej Kohli, combining charity and philanthropy stories, such as cataract surgery outreach in Ghana, with broad explainers on social issues like poverty in Asia and commentary on retail trends. The posts are generic in style and mostly aim to inform readers rather than offer deep original reporting.