Marc Silver
Marc Silver, who edits NPR's global health blog, has been a reporter and editor for the Baltimore Jewish Times, U.S. News & World Report and National Geographic. He is the author of Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) During Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond and co-author, with his daughter, Maya Silver, of My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks: Real-Life Advice From Real-Life Teens. The NPR story he co-wrote with Rebecca Davis and Viola Kosome -- 'No Sex For Fish' — won a Sigma Delta Chi award for online reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Amid gunfire and grenades, aid workers struggle to provide food, water and health care to the residents of Juba. -
It's now a star-studded video from the U.N.'s Project Everyone, and it's going viral. We ask some globally-minded girls: Does it do a good job promoting gender equality? -
A new study suggests that there's more to a goat's stare than you might think. -
The U.K. gives billions of pounds to the developing world. Will this continue in the wake of Brexit? -
A video of a Lithuanian goat beauty contest is going viral. But ... what makes a goat beautiful? -
A third of hospitals surveyed in low- and middle-income countries report they do not have running water all the time. And sometimes not at all. -
Keyon Harrold, the trumpet star and one of the composers, talks about the art of creating a song with a conscience.
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Yes, he is intense. He has a lot of tattoos. And he absolutely loves Senegal. -
Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his week at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan. -
Deep (and not-so-deep) thoughts from Thomas Thwaites, author of GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human.
