Collection Type: Curated Collections

In April 2010 PLOS Medicine launched a six-part series on global health diplomacy. In the introductory article, Harley Feldbaum and Joshua Michaud consider the important interplay between foreign…

This four-part series on water and sanitation leads with an article by Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross who argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation and…

The Council of Science Editors organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development in October 2007. More than 200 science and health journals, including PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology, and…

In this special collection, four policy papers cover a range of ethical, social, and cultural issues related to the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative…

Estimates of global health indicators - which give insight into death and disease rates, document advances in development, and help policymakers monitor progress - are absolutely essential for…

In order to revisit the health consequences of the Asian tsunami of December 2004 six months on, PLOS Medicine commissioned a collection of Magazine articles that were published in April 2005. We…

In celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of PLOS Biology, this collection showcases ten specially selected research articles, drawn from a decade of publishing excellent science. The articlesare…

This collection of brief provocative discussion papers, initiated and edited by Simon Levin, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, aims to highlight fundamental questions in biology that cut…