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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Reflections on the 2017 Consortium of Universities in Global Health held in Washington DC, USA (April 6-9) Health systems are getting more complex than ever, encompassing no longer just the typical building blocks of health systems and their interactions, but also venturing to include areas of study on planetary health – or “ga...
Two weeks ago, I read with much delight the suggestions that my friend Kristof proposed for the future of planetary health. Overall, there is nothing to oppose with his suggestions and observations. In fact, these are the kinds of conversations that are very much needed to push the frontiers of a young idea. I would even say that planetary healt...
In the last few years, the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal has developed an expertise in approaches towards diseases and patients. Take for example the approach that is most commonly referred to as “patient partnerships,” whereby interdisciplinary healthcare teams put to use the patient’s experiences, history, and exper...
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are a critical component of the health workforce in low-resource settings, but they do not get – at least for now – due recognition in many of these settings. After the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the government laid the foundation to formalize and concretely recognize the work of CHWs. Could this revised ...
The first one thousand days of a child’s life—from conception till age two—are very crucial in terms of nutrition and also for the mother. With the Boko Haram insurgency in North East Nigeria forcing many to flee and now settle in IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps across the country, this report takes a look at the nutrition challeng...
Last week, at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference in Washington DC, planetary health was one of the key themes, I hear. The inaugural issue of the Lancet Planetary Health was launched and Richard Horton himself told attendees in a keynote speech, “What climate change is about is the fate of civilization,”. “We hav...
Only eight years separate Alan Whiteside’s HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction: 2nd Edition from the original edition of 2008, but the sticker on the cover does not lie: it is a “fully updated new edition”. The content has been updated, the tone has changed too. Reading the original edition filled me with optimism; the 2nd edition made me ...
The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission) was launched two weeks ago drawing attention to the fact that access to healthcare, in and of itself, is not sufficient to meet the (health part of the) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rather, it is access to high quality healthcare that w...
So far not much has leaked out from the (second) meeting between Bill Gates and Donald Trump on Monday, apart from an ultra-short announcement by White House spokesman Sean Spicer who said the two spoke about their “shared commitment to finding and stopping disease outbreaks around the world” and a statement by Sarah Logan, a spokeswoman...