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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
This morning, I noticed a paratrooper in full dress near the Central Station loo in Antwerp (the guy was looking somewhat menacingly in my direction, probably because I was mumbling WTF). So I didn’t waste much time in that place, and headed towards ITM – at a brisker pace than usual. Nevertheless, on the way to my institute, a 20 minute-wal...
Last August 22-24, 2015, nearly 500 new leaders in health research and innovation gathered at the New Leaders for Health (NL4H) Pre-Forum, which was held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila, Philippines. This event served as a prelude to the Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health (also called Forum 2015), whic...
In last week’s New Leaders for Health (NL4H) Pre-Forum in Manila, four Emerging Voices alumni – three from Class 2014 (Renzo Guinto, Nasreen Jessani, Bhaskar Purohit) and one from Class 2012 (Beverly Ho) – participated in a panel entitled “Emerging Voices for Global Health: The Future of Health Systems Research.” The panel aimed to...
“All animals (patients) are equal, it’s just that some are more equal than others” I recently attended the Leadership Management and Governance Training for Health Systems Strengthening in Africa. The training is hosted by Amref Health Africa in Kenya. It was an exciting two weeks, during which I had the opportunity to interact with ...
Let’s face it: I am a great fan of Mission: Impossible. It started with the TV series (and you may be surprised to learn that the great Leonard Nimoy himself even played in some episodes), and continued with the movies as yes, I am the generation of teenage girls that fell in love with Tom Cruise in Top Gun (and hopefully got over it). Above a...
Imagine you’re in a room full of computer monitors and while inside, you ask “Which vaccine would have been most cost-efficient for disease X?”. Only seconds later, the room would turn into an amazing room full of data presented in very engaging and interactive visuals showing you state of the art simulations, discussing your different pol...
This morning the article “Have tenured academic position, will travel (frequently)” in the Sydney Morning Herald caught my attention via Twitter. The issues pointed out in the article, summarized aptly in the introductory paragraph as ‘Academics’ travel to overseas conferences is expensive and environmentally damaging but many see it as a ...
As health system researchers, how do we contribute to a paradigm shift? How do we move the focus from disease specific/fragmented health programs towards integrated, patient-centred health systems, especially given the abundance of disease-specific funding? At the recent International AIDS Society conference in Vancouver, Canada I lauded the as...
I’m at FfD3, which stands for Third Conference on Financing for Development, in Addis. Why? I’m not an economist, nor a development expert and certainly no politician. I work for a medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The environment we work in is strongly defined by development politics. The current move away...