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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
As many of you know, one of the perennial questions around the ‘Emerging Voices’ venture is this one: when are you actually ‘Emerged’? (+ grin) I don’t have a clue – feeling at times closer to a Drowning/Imploding Voice, especially on Friday mornings – but nevertheless thought it might be good to speculate a bit, even we all agre...
A recent article by my friend and editor-in chief of BMJ Global Health, Seye Abimbola, on the North/South framing for development and health resonates more than ever. At the core of the development story is its history of conquest and domination, with colonial rulers helping themselves to cheap labour and natural resources. It has evolved, of co...
Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs) are experiencing a health workforce crisis. In the Nigerian context, one of the underlying problems is disharmony and unhealthy rivalry among health professionals and this has contributed to the dysfunction of the health system. Yet, effective teamwork among health professionals is recognised as an essential...
Last week I attended the launch of the Global Health Watch 5 in Brussels. The launch (on 29 March) was a joint event organised by the working group “Determinants of International Health”, a group that has regular meetings, organizes events, writes contributions for international events, and publishes documents. Organisations involved this ti...
The healthcare situation in Venezuela has worsened. In the first three months of 2018 a decay of all indices has been registered, and the forecasts are dismal for the future. Hospitals lack basic staff and people suffer malnutrition. The country is facing the re-emergence of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis considered “under control...
There exists a tension between the optimism and promise of new technologies, and the reality of working in low resource environments. This tension has an important bearing in global health security, where there is an urgent need to guide and operationalise technological innovations for individual and collective health security. However, new tech...
Post the most traumatic moments of my life (aka the PhD), I jumped with enthusiasm into the civil society space where I was given an exciting challenge to develop youth programmes in sexual and reproductive health (SRHR). We’re coolly known as #SAT4YOUTH! The journey has meant learning to apply theory, and designing programmes to plant the see...
I was at “The WHO at the Crossroads” workshop which took place in Berlin last week, as an IHP correspondent, and for someone who is relatively new to the global health governance debate, the meeting was very “educational” indeed. Broad themes of discussion on the day were amongst others, the politics and architecture of aid and global ...
With a personnel density of 0.3 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 population, a figure far below the critical threshold of 23 per 10,000, Ethiopia has been categorised as one of the countries with a health workforce “crisis”. The situation is compounded by a substantial geographic maldistribution of the health workforce, as workers tend to...