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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
The commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lays the basis for a renewed momentum to ensure health for all. Within the SDG agenda we associate ‘Health for All’ with Goal 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages”. Since the endorsement of the SDGs in 2015, we have realised multiple commitments at globa...
It’s almost that time again in Canada – the federal government is gearing up toward October, when the next election will be held. The scenario is already quite different from that of the last election in 2015, when public efforts to oust a right-leaning government whose policies had become largely unpopular, proved successful. Strategic vot...
The EV secretariat at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp would like to provide an opportunity for young to midcareer researchers to spend dedicated time in the form of a residency at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. The call is open only for alumni of the Emerging Voices...
At the beginning of November, a group of policy-makers, experts and health practitioners convened in Beirut, Lebanon, to exchange on the Eastern Mediterranean region’s governance challenges, and to launch the first Regional chapter of the Health Systems Governance Collaborative. Countries in the Region have been grappling with health system go...
A number of Emerging Voices (alumni) and other young researchers reflected on 2018 from a global health point of view, on our request. Some also came up with suggestions for the following year(s). You find their short quotes below. We hope they inspire you in the year to come! “Reaffirming primary health care as the most equitable and sustaina...
New Delhi just witnessed the conclusion of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) Forum meeting. Started in 2005, the Partnership, as it is referred to, was formed to strengthen consensus building to support the achievement of the MDGs (especially MDG 4 & 5) and to focus on the importance of the continuum of care espec...
‘Caught between a rock and a hard place’ is the expression (and Stones song ) that comes to mind having visited Marrakesh recently. Until a few months before the adoption of the (now notorious) UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, quiet diplomacy and technical discussions guided its development process. At the time of t...
Several recent prominent global health events – the Health Systems Research Symposium in Liverpool, and the Women Leaders in Global Health event in London among them – demonstrated interest in the role of power in health systems and in health systems research. A group of interested researchers and practitioners affiliated with SHAPES (Soci...
“I did not choose to be HIV positive, I was born with it. When I go to the hospital the nurses are very mean to me. They neglect me and at times throw insults at me. At times they task me to sort my treatment file among a pile of many files, without which they will not give me drugs. Worst of all in my school the teacher isolated me from the...
