Global health review

MSF outreach workers test people for kala azar, Fulbaria, Mymensingh district, Bangladesh.

A weekly round-up of all the latest global health research from MSF projects and beyond

17 April 2026

To underscore the MSF-UK initiative and the importance of investing in operationally aligned research in humanitarian settings, MSF Scientific Days 2026 is hosting two exciting research-driven sessions on how evidence can shape our medical programming: “Adapting care through evidence: making tools fit our reality” and “Whose voices shape our programmes? Using research to rethink our approaches.” Register here to attend in person or online.

This week, an MSF-authored opinion in The BMJ draws on a decade of experience designing and delivering critical care training to demonstrate how it can strengthen care delivery by generalist doctors and nurses practising in low-resource settings.

In Clinical Microbiology and Infection, an MSF editorial highlights the highly lethal and epidemic threat of Ebola, pointing to the efficacy of the rVSV-ZEBOV (Ervebo) vaccine in preventing infection and reducing disease incidence and mortality.

In International Wound Journal, a study conducted in Nablus, Palestine found nurses had adequate knowledge but suboptimal pressure injury prevention practice, with only 31.6% meeting standards; recent training was associated with better performance.

Finally, in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, a youth co-created global framework outlines a coordinated approach across all levels to tackle the triple burden of adolescent malnutrition and strengthen policy and investment, and an MSF systematic review in BMJ Paediatrics Open found no evidence of fluid overload or impaired systolic cardiac function in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) receiving intravenous fluids for cholera, challenging current restrictive guidelines.

Best regards,

Maya Fenyk, Lillian Matthes, and Holly Baker with MSF-authored article assistance from Amelia Zhao.

All MSF-authored publications can be found on the MSF Science Portal, as well as recordings, abstracts and posters from the MSF Scientific Days 2025 conference.

Antimicrobial resistance

Clinical Infectious Diseases • Article: Trends in Long Duration Antibiotic Prescribing Following Focused Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts Across a Large Healthcare Enterprise

Climate change and Planetary Health

The Lancet • Comment: Life at the water's edge: a Lancet Commission on sea-level rise, health, and justice

The Lancet Planetary Health • Viewpoint: Global environmental change and the gut–kidney–brain axis: a review and framework of vulnerability and resilience

The Lancet Planetary Health • Editorial: Re-endangerment

BMC Health Services Research • Article: Utilizing a co-production strategy to identify multi sectoral priorities for enhancing preparedness against extreme weather events in vulnerable District Badin, Sindh-Pakistan

PLOS Speaking of Medicine Blog • Blog: Behind the paper: Health systems collaboration can strengthen climate change resilience: Insights from Indigenous knowledges in the Latin American region

Conflict, migration and health

The BMJ Global Health • Comment: Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine: epidemiological challenges for public health

Malaria Journal • Article: Malaria at the margins: climatic extremes, migration, and urban informal settlement risk in South Africa

Global Public Health • Review: Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus among refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced populations within Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis