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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Antonio Gramsci wrote around 1930 that the crisis precisely consists in the fact that “The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” This quote was used by Jane Kelsey, a law professor from the University of Auckland, during the opening plenary session of the 4th People’s Heal...
Recently, the WHO Regional Office for Africa held a Forum entitled “Health systems strengthening for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (12-16 November 2018). The Forum brought together health systems and services (HSS) focal persons in WHO country offices, and Direct...
As was covered just last week, the 6th Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) venture (EV2018) took place in Liverpool last month, just before the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. By now, EV4GH is a global health network of almost 300 emerging and emerged voices from across the world, a network that has not only grown ...
The best statements collected (see also on Twitter hashtag #WLGH18): “Our ceiling must be the floor of those who come after us”. “If you don’t get a seat at the table, pull up a folding chair and if they won’t let you, just sit on the table” “When a man interrupts you, keep talking. Don’t make an eye contact & pretend you did...
Last week, I came across the 10 principles of gender transformative leadership (in a Devex op-ed by Roopa Dhatt et al). Although I’m not much of a leader (and haven’t really bothered to go through the leadership literature either), it got me thinking, and so below you find some humble suggestions for “ten principles of planetary health (...
Through winning a crowdsourcing writing contest organized by SESHGlobal, I was fortunate to attend the 2nd annual Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) Conference held in London on the 8th and 9th of November 2018 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I was one of 6 finalists (out of 311 submissions) who had proffered the top 6 ...
This article was co-authored by Shehnaz Munshi, María Rodríguez, Olivia Biermann, Veronica Osorio Calderon, Gloria Nenita Velasco, Shweta Singh, & Fiona C. Kaikai (all EVs2018) The Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) program started in 2010 as an innovative initiative by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM), with Pro...
Last week this short tweet from Devi Sridhar went viral, well, at least among global health twitterandi 🙂 : “Is it just me who thinks #globalhealth has too many meetings, summits & declarations- and not enough of the actual substance of getting things done?” While I’m probably not best placed to ponder this question – given that the...
I was no less than thrilled to be attending the WHO’s first Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health (30 Oct-1 Nov) this week, one for the fact that it was organized by WHO (in collaboration with many intergovernmental organizations) at its headquarters in Geneva, and two for my interest in exploring the area of air pollution and health. ...