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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Although #ECTMIH2017 was starting only at 5 pm with a grandiose musical opening ceremony in the all the more grandiose Elisabeth center, a few students and some more professors were already rushing to the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) building on Nationalestraat as the clock rang 1 pm on Monday. What were they all so excited about at a ti...
It appears these are the times of “angry young women” who are tired of being ridiculed, ignored, or worse, harassed or bullied… the conference on global health women leadership certainly came timely. 390 women and 20 (!) men gathered in Stanford on the 12th of October. And indeed, in the morning, there was a hoo-hoo-hoo-hooray atmosphere (...
According to UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, “Water is one of the highest priorities for development and lives in dignity, as well as a serious factor in maintaining peace and security.” In fact, for centuries, water has been central in human, economic, and environmental development, but water was and still is a political tool f...
In Quantum of Solace, Bond thwarts yet another greedy plot to gain over-arching power. But in the new millennium his villain is hungry – thirsty – for water: “This is the world’s most precious resource and we need to control as much of it as we can.” Dominic Greene (villain). Water is essential. Currently, 40% of people live in an ar...
Next week is set to be quite controversial with the European Conference on Tropical Medicine #ECTMIH2017 and the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) session where alumni will hotly debate the role of health policy and systems research in transforming political commitments to improve our health systems. There has long since been the issue o...
https://www.globalhealth5050.org 12th October 2017 sees the initial launch of a new independent initiative that seeks to advance action and accountability for gender-equality in global health – Global Health 50/50. The launch coincides with the Women Leaders in Global Health conference at Stanford University (https://www.wlghconfer...
Every year, the World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10th. This year’s theme is Mental Health in the Workplace. The WHO acknowledges that an adverse working environment can lead to negative mental and physical outcomes, while also highlighting depression and anxiety as conditions that hamper productivity (with a substantial impact ...
We are currently living in an era that has the highest levels of forced displacement on record. These experiences of migration of individuals, families and communities face are life-altering phenomena, both physically and mentally. The ways in which these extra-ordinary psychosocial and social stresses are dealt with by the refugees themselves, ...
On May 23rd, 2017, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO). On July 1, 2017, Dr. Tedros began his (first) five-year term at the helm of WHO. Dr. Tedros is the first non-medical doctor to lead the WHO and received strong support from a majority of developing ...