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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
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...
The International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter started in 2009-2010, back then as an initiative of the health policy unit at ITM, with David Hercot and Wim Van Damme as the key initiators. The Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD) has supported us from the start, and we’re very grateful for that. Very early on, a weekly newsletter focusi...
I feel compelled to react on the recent blog by Willem Van De Put and Werners Soors (“The ITM symposium on 40 years PHC: is there a doctor in the house?”) , in which they gave their take on the ITM symposium on 40 years Primary Healthcare (October 23rd ), and more specifically to their statements regarding the last panel discussion. ( I ...
Over the past few weeks, I have been following, with some discomfort occasionally, the conversations around women’s leadership in global health, taking place in the context of the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference (WLGH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We must be concerned that most of the conversation on gender ...
At the global level, awareness is growing on the need to include gender considerations in health policy formulation, implementation, and research. Scientific publications, blogs, and to some extent even media coverage are drawing increasing attention to the fact that while women represent half of the global population, their voice is largely und...
Last summer we decided to evaluate the newsletter. We wanted to know more about our readers, and check if we were meeting our focal goal of providing a weekly update on global health policy & governance in the health SDG era, with focus on health policy & systems research, all this of course while “Switching the Poles”. The evaluation was a ...