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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
(Margaret Chan, at a press conference running 50 minutes late) Today I convened an Emergency Committee, under the International Health Regulations, to gather advice on the severity of the health threat associated with the continuing spread of silly (and thus downright dangerous) American GOP presidential candidates, also known as the ‘Am...
As many of you know, Ethiopia is one of the very few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has made substantial progress on all 2015 health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Maternal and child health statistics have improved considerably in the past decade, and the country has also made tremendous strides in the fight against HIV, malaria an...
As the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era has kicked off, on January 1st, the focus is now increasingly on national implementation, even if SDG indicators and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are still being fine-tuned. Globally, India has been engaged in the SDG indicator setting exercise as a representative (along with China) of c...
Next week, WHO’s Executive Board will discuss the draft Global Strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030. If all goes well, the final version will be endorsed at the 69th World Health Assembly in May. Workforce 2030 provides a new and progressive health workforce agenda. A decade ago, The World Health report 2006 already estimated...
I’ve always wanted to be a member of the Emerging Voices for Global Health network. I remember when it was set up it all seemed really exciting and an excellent way to learn from each other and influence others. I am sadly too old to ever get my chance at being in your very special club. But that hasn’t stopped me from plotting ways to becom...
It may already be a month since the world’s governments, at last, after 20 years of fancy (and I hope carbon-neutral) conferences, arrived at an agreement for global climate action, but people are still talking about COP 21 – which is a good thing because most UN conferences end up vanishing in oblivion and then suddenly re-emerge in politic...
Last weekend, on 12 December, the world celebrated UHC Day, with a call for greater action and progress on delivering Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Countries all over the world need to take further steps toward ensuring access to essential, affordable, quality health care for every person, everywhere. As you might recall, end of September, at...
While I understand why Angela Merkel was chosen by Time as 2015’s person of the year, I think it was a mistake, even if I (like many others) appreciate her somewhat surprising moral leadership in the refugee crisis and the – for journalists – irresistible appeal of a catchphrase like ‘Wir Schaffen das’. (PS: after this weekend, I w...
You’ve arrived. Signs welcomed you and hundreds of others (for a while anyway). You have a temporary room. Temporary furniture. Temporary clothes. A temporary identity. Until your asylum decision is made. Then you move onto being semi-permanently temporary, sometimes living for decades as temporary citizens with stunted rights and privileges. ...