Anya Hirschfeld

Anya Hirschfeld is an intern for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2025.
Governance

Tracking the Progress of "Make America Healthy Again"

by Anya Hirschfeld

A report card for the Trump administration's health agenda based on confirmation hearings and actions taken to date

A Doctors without Borders employee supports a woman in Mykolaiv, Ukraine after a Russian missile destroyed her house, October 10, 2023.
Governance

U.S. Cuts to Ukraine's Foreign Aid Hit Health Workforce

by Anya Hirschfeld

Ukraine, with $1.4 billion curtailed, is the single biggest loser of U.S. foreign aid

A mother and her daughter carry grain to their home in rural Cusco, Peru, on July 21, 2022
Gender

Intimate Partner Violence in Peru

by Anya Hirschfeld

The country's rates of intimate partner violence are twice the global average