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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
It was a rainy night, as I made preparations to go to Bangalore for my visa verification interview. I had already postponed the appointment twice in the same month, because of the worst flood that affected our state (Kerala, India) in a long time. It had been difficult to find transportation anywhere, and I had been with the flood victims in the...
After scaling the near impossible hurdle of travelling on a Nigerian passport to a high risk country, I was thrilled to be attending the International Conference on Maternal and Reproductive Health, held between the 20th and 21st of September and co-organised by The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), the Global Health N...
In our recent chapter in the ORF–OCPP Global Policy volume “Securing the 21st Century Mapping India-Africa Engagement”, we argue that future health systems in India and Africa are going to become more alike than they have been before, and that it is crucial for them to learn from each other. We analyze two types of health system innovations ...
A distance learning phase forms part of the build-up to the face to face training of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) programme in Liverpool. In August, the Emerging Voice 2018 (EV2018) cohort, working with EV alumni and experts in global health, took part in thematic discussion sessions and shared ideas on “Global health in the a...
Ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 is undoubtedly a noble endeavour, and is the aim put forward by the UN in SDG 3.3. In full, the target states: “By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases”. To quantify the current progress...
India’s journey towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is gaining special attention since the Modi Government announced the country’s largest health care programme ever, named ‘Ayushman Bharat’ on 1st Feb, 2018 – just a year before the general elections scheduled in 2019. By way of example, Richard Horton discusses in this week’s Lanc...
It’s that time where in South Africa and the Southern hemisphere, at least, there are blossoms everywhere and a spring in our step literally! Not to be corny, but this analogy does resonate with the Emerging Voices (#EV2018) distance learning phase which is the first stage to getting that health-system-spring-in-your-step, thoughts and actions...
In my later years as a medical student, I was fortunate to take calls in a local clinic in the neighborhood of my medical school – University of Buea, Cameroon. Still struggling to finetune the clinical skills I had learned through my training, making sense of clinical presentation of diseases, prescription of medicines and para-clinical inves...
Global research, large scale innovation and socio-economic development have become a product of collaborations, partnerships and networks. This applies not just to collaborations between individual scientists but also and especially to institutions, organisations and industry. Without effective collaboration, science is stifled, and impact on he...