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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Sometimes, the more things change, the more they remain the same. This is particularly true of India’s health sector where in the past decade important public investments have been made, yet, it seems like little has changed. Two major developments have characterized India’s health system in the past ten years, which in many ways marked a ne...
The path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is difficult for any country, but especially so for one such as India – a country struggling to provide even basic, essential care to its people; a country where, even as UHC is exhibited as being a top priority, it risks being just a mirage. Despite large improvements in recent years, basic heal...
It’s over a year now since the third global symposium on health systems research took place in Cape Town. At the symposium, the science and practice of people-centred health systems took center stage. Almost 2000 participants represented 125 countries in Cape Town, so it clearly was a global conference. The 2014 edition of the Emerging Voice...
So, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have finally been endorsed by world leaders and attention has shifted to what is arguably the more important event, the December Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21 ) at which countries will commit to a universal climate agreement. As a fan of Richard Horton (who isn’t?), I endorse the positi...
I’m just back from the 2015 World Health Summit (WHS) in a (rather cold) Berlin, and still recovering from a nasty cold. It was the first time I attended the event, so I’m perhaps not the best placed person to give you an overall account and/or comprehensive analysis of everything that happened between 11-13 October. So instead of doing that...
Progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has been slow in many low income countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In these settings, poor communities continue to suffer from financial hardship due to catastrophic health expenditures and many people succumb to morbidity and premature death as a result of poor quality ...
I happen to be Canadian by choice. My parents put in a conscious, thoughtful effort into deciding to move to Canada- a decision rooted in the values the country represented, including its role as a peace-maker, a protector of human rights, and a friend to the environment. Fifteen years later, I can’t honestly say they would’ve made the sam...
As a young researcher, I think we all can identify with the opening paragraph of our thesis or research articles which state ‘According to the Millennium Development Goals-MDGs’… Like it or not, the MDGs filtered down from the global level to shaping the research agenda and influencing planning processes at health facilities. The Sustainab...
After several years of consultation, the SDG agenda was launched last week with much fanfare in New York. Amongst the various health-related targets established by the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target 3.c aims to: substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the heal...