Next week is set to be quite controversial with the European Conference on Tropical Medicine #ECTMIH2017 and the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) session where alumni will hotly debate the role of health policy and systems research in transforming political commitments to improve our health systems. There has long since been the issue o...

  https://www.globalhealth5050.org    12th October 2017 sees the initial launch of a new independent initiative that seeks to advance action and accountability for gender-equality in global health – Global Health 50/50. The launch coincides with the Women Leaders in Global Health conference at Stanford University (https://www.wlghconfer...

Every year, the World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10th. This year’s theme is Mental Health in the Workplace. The WHO acknowledges that an adverse working environment can lead to negative mental and physical outcomes, while also highlighting depression and anxiety as conditions that hamper productivity (with a substantial impact ...

We are currently living in an era that has the highest levels of forced displacement on record. These experiences of migration of individuals, families and communities face are life-altering phenomena, both physically and mentally. The ways in which these extra-ordinary psychosocial and social stresses are dealt with by the refugees themselves, ...

On May 23rd, 2017, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO). On July 1, 2017, Dr. Tedros began his (first) five-year term at the helm of WHO. Dr. Tedros is the first non-medical doctor to lead the WHO and received strong support from a majority of developing ...

In Latin America, an estimated 6.5 million abortions occurred every year between 2010 and 2014, with 95% of them performed clandestinely in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, representing 10% of maternal mortality in the region. As of today, only four countries in Latin America allow assisted abortion in all circumstances; in six countries it is ...

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, argued in a 2014 editorial that global health, despite its stated goals to assist the Global South, primarily benefits the Global North.  This controversial take on a seemingly altruistic field has been met with some support, with most citing the net flow of benefits that seems to invariably flow i...

Quality of care in health services has been identified as one of the key elements on the path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and fundamental towards achieving the health related goals and targets outlined under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of QoC towards achieving our goals for better health services and outcomes...

With the majority of the world’s population living in urban settings, strengthening the capacity of social systems to adequately respond to the needs of mobile, urban populations, and revisiting older policies that no longer fit the needs of increasingly urban populations, is critical in the quest for universal coverage. Today’s urban societ...