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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
I was more than happy to go back to Geneva again as an IHP Correspondent, this time, to attend the first few days of the 144th WHO Executive Board (EB) Meeting. I went to Geneva, as Lonely Planet would describe it, ‘on a shoestring’. However, the beautiful white landscape due to abundant snowfall made me quickly forget about the budget const...
By 2022, all persons in Kenya are expected to have access – as and when needed – to quality and essential health services through a single unified benefit package without the risk of financial hardship. This is in line with a directive made by the President of Kenya on 12 December 2017, whereby achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022, ...
Le monde est un lieu divisé et l’un des obstacles auxquels nous sommes confrontés est la langue. Les silos de connaissances s’accumulent souvent, les gens ne lisant que certains corpus d’œuvres, en fonction de l’endroit où ils lisent et dans quelle langue. Les milieux universitaires sont également fortement touchés par ces problèmes. ReBU...
Academic publishers’ timelines are interesting. Exactly a year ago, Paul et al.’s paper received unprecedented attention in the global health stratosphere. Acclaimed by some, criticised by others, the paper certainly sparked much debate on the relevance of performance-based financing (PBF) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This ma...
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...