Salma M. H. Abdalla |

Salma M. H. Abdalla

Salma M Abdalla is interested in foundational causes and determinants of health and the role of policies beyond the healthcare sector in shaping population health. She is the lead Project Director for the Rockefeller Foundation-Boston University Commission on health Determinants, Data, and Decision-making (3-D Commission). @SalmaMHAbdalla

Developing an Activist Agenda for Health Policy and Systems Research in Africa

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing” (Arundhati Roy) In March 2019 a group of researchers and practitioners met in Accra, Ghana, the first sub-Saharan nation freed from colonial rule, to interrogate what a decolonial lens offers for developing an activist agenda for health polic...

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Public health implications of Trump’s decision to terminate the US relationship with WHO in sub-Saharan Africa and how to mitigate them in the short term

Last week, after more than a month of thinly and less thinly veiled threats, President Trump announced the U.S. would “terminate” its relationship with the WHO. As if he was playing in his own Terminator movie, a really bad sequel at that. It is not immediately clear whether the president can fully withdraw U.S. funding from WHO without an ...

The future of global health? Some reflections from CUGH 2019

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 10th annual meeting took place in Chicago (8-10 March) under the theme “translation and implementation for impact in Global Health”. This was the first time I attended this conference; I left feeling hopeful yet remained confused on multiple fronts. But, before we get into that, two t...

Sustainable Development Goals and Global Health Education

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, was built on the momentum gained towards improving health and development indicators under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The SDGs present a major milestone in unifying efforts towards global development, as well as, addressing the limitations of the MDGs. In this article...