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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
“We members of the Global Network for Health in All Policies commit to sharing the experience of institutionalizing the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach and to facilitating and accelerating HiAP implementation for progressing the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage”. This bold mission statement of the newly laun...
The social sciences are critical to furthering our understanding of health policy and systems around the world. Political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, among other disciplines, provide a range of concepts that allow us to look at our research in a new light – offering new methodologies (process tracing from political science or ...
“We lost an exemplary son, a respectful son-in law, a loving father, a caring husband, a kind brother, a sympathetic relative, a helping neighbor…” were the phrases passed by the dearest of Asmat Malik, who laid him in his grave with sobbing eyes on May 30, midnight. I was among hundreds of Asmat’s frie...
Sometimes a couple of tweets and quotes are all you need to discern a new global health mantra (or is it framing?). So below I’ll just list a couple of tweets & quotes from the last week which for some reason pushed my buttons (Granted, that isn’t too hard). I’ll leave you guessing who came up with these quotes, but it wasn’t Joe S...
After a whirlwind of recent travel across Southern Africa, the realities of the continent hit home and pretty much keep me awake at night, but also close to tears and highly angered when I think of developmental issues on the ground. Against that backdrop, May 25th is the perfect day for reflection and hopefully action, as it marks Africa Da...
As many of you know, global health is riding high on the G20 agenda. As Ilona Kickbusch notes this is largely thanks to Germany so it is no surprise then that the first ever G20 Health Ministers meeting is being hosted by Germany on 19, 20 May. At the meeting in Berlin, themed “Promoting Health”, G20 Health Ministers will tackle an...
Human resources for health are a critical building block of every health system. In India, the health system has struggled with the shortage and inequitable distribution of human resources, including the challenge of attracting and retaining health workers in remote settings. This blog, on the lives and work of crew aboard a mobile boat clinic, ...
Global health security is again on everybody’s minds, with the latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC. As Laurie Garrett put it in Foreign Policy, the “new Ebola outbreak in the DRC Congo puts WHO and the global health system post-2014 reforms to the test”. It is thus quite likely that the DRC crisis (and the way WHO & others in the syste...
Ninety seconds. That’s the amount of time an algorithm has to convince you to start your next binge-watching session. Lights, camera, inaction. Given its increasing monopoly over entertainment, Netflix seems to have perfected its tantalizing algorithm, seducing millions of people to endlessly consume the rabbit hole of tailor-made TV. “There’s n...