Summary of #HSR2024 Nagasaki interactive debate Is it ethical for health policy and systems researchers to use X, formerly Twitter? As we began planning our session several months before the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research  (18-22 Nov) in Nagasaki, Japan, we wondered whether this topic was too niche. Since November, however, ...

In global health, we don’t just observe what happens: we work to improve the health of people and populations. Based on scientific evidence and history, we know that viruses don’t stop at borders. If we don’t work to prevent disease, we know that infections and chronic conditions run rampant. If we don’t have strong health and social s...

If you followed last week’s 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) – the WHO’s governing body composed of its 194 member states – through press release headlines, it was a historic success. WHO’s Director-General Dr. Tedros closed the week by stating WHA77 had been a “victory for multilateralism”. “Landmark” resolutions were passed on...

If there’s one part of Tim Schwab’s “reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire” (the book’s subtitle) you read, make it the conclusion. Schwab asks some fundamental questions on these final pages: Should one person, “any person – no matter how benevolent or well intentioned” have obscene amounts of wealth and extreme power...

10 years ago, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were coming to an end and millions of people were participating in consultations to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a global health colleague sent me a link to the IHP newsletter with a message “this is good stuff, read this.” I’ve since followed the newsletter ...

The issue of work-life balance has recently been highlighted in a number of global health discussions. For example, earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust quite publicly explored whether to introduce a 4-day working week (but decided against this). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation introduced a 52-week paid parental leave (but then halved this...