On Thursday, November 13, Vox co-hosted the 2025 L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Program grant awardees for a dinner celebrating their achievements in research and fostering connections among women in science across disciplines. Research Astronaut Kellie Gerardi emceed the evening, which opened with L’Oréal Groupe’s chief sustainability officer, Marissa Pagnani McGowan, giving remarks on […]

When we launched Vox’s Future Perfect section in 2018, it began with a simple question: “What topics would we write about if our only instruction was to write about the most important stuff in the world, particularly the most important stuff that isn’t already widely covered?” In the years since, the “most important stuff” has […]

The phone rang just before midnight.  It was early February in 2001 in Mumbai, and Yusuf Hamied, a seasoned chemist at the Indian multinational pharma company Cipla, was at a dinner party. He picked up the phone anyway. A New York Times reporter was on the line, calling to check a rumor: Was Hamied really […]

In a year marked by devastating cuts to aid and horrible humanitarian crises, global health and development progress is at risk of backsliding. But then, there are those who refuse to cave in. Tackling global health from new perspectives, these leaders have channeled their expertise to create lasting impact. Their work spans high-stakes arenas, from […]

The grand challenges of global health and development, from feeding a warming world to defeating antibiotic resistance, require funding and effort and politics. But they also require breakthroughs. In the last hundred years, we’ve made incredible progress fighting malaria, invented game-changing vaccines, and developed new drugs that could change the course on heart disease. But […]