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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
In the summer of 1978, Grease, the cult movie opened in theatres, and some weeks later, Louis Joy Brown – the first test tube baby – was born in England. These two facts were momentous enough in themselves, but only a few months later, something else would join them in the annals of global history, and no, it wasn’t Godzilla. In the autumn of ...
This summer I took up IHP’s suggestion and read Paul Mason’s ‘PostCapitalism: a Guide to Our Future’. That triggered my interest in Ilias Alami’s ‘On the terrorism of money and national policy-making in emerging capitalist economies’. My “summer of Marxism” provided me with a few clues on why investing in health and the health ...
“I’m standing in a place people call the playground. My eyes are hurting from the brightness of the sun…I keep my head down and twitch my eyes. The sounds around me are hard to distinguish from one another, I hear people’s voices; I hear children crying; I can hear and feel the vibration of the wind every time the swing next to me goes up ...
Each year, 5.6 million children die before their fifth birthday, while millions more fail to reach their full development potential. While global strategies like Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) have contributed to significant reductions in child deaths, what can we learn from 20 y...
This week the AIDS2018 Conference in Amsterdam kicked off with an explicit focus on diversity, key populations and young people. AIDS conferences are always a bit of a celebration, bringing together scientists and activists, politicians and social society, donors and implementers in an invigorating combination of evidence, practice and protest. ...
Health financing is one of the six building blocks of a health system, and health insurance is key to making progress with UHC, yet it continues to be a major challenge in the Nigerian health system. It is uncertain that Nigeria will achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 as a target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Nati...
It is now three days after one of the most exciting FIFA world cups of recent times and already, to some of my male colleagues, it feels as if they have entered one of the black holes in the universe. In this year’s edition of the event, teams like Italy and the Netherlands which are usually fixtures in the competition were noticeable absences...
The authors are staff members at LSHTM and are all involved in the health sector component of the SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) programme Once, such things were only talked of in private. But this time it was different. Those present, coming from government, universities, civil society, and international agencies, were speaking openly ab...
Last week, a few thousand researchers, policymakers and practitioners gathered in Seattle for the Annual Research Meeting of AcademyHealth, the leading organization for health services research in the U.S. Health services research (or HSR as it is called in the U.S., which is confusing as it is also an acronym for health systems research) and ...