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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
‘Resisting Resilience’ was the title of the most inspiring presentation I attended in the last half year. Early June, Mark Neocleous, a professor of the Critique of Political Economy, presented his view at a conference on the resilience discourse organized by Medico International in Frankfurt. If you want to know what makes his argument ...
I recently started reading the book ‘To save humanity’ (edited by Julio Frenk & Steven Hoffman), after receiving it as a present from my colleague Gorik Ooms. It’s a collection of essays, and I’m not far yet. Witnessing the almost criminal “spectacle” over the last weeks and especially days in Brussels, one cannot help but wonder whe...
Our Newsletter’s editor-in-chief (allow me to call you like that, Kristof) is a very curious guy. An early draft of Sara and Pierre’s Featured Article for this week’s IHP issue, ‘Health in Argentina’ had only just landed on his desk (the draft included a reference to “achievements in the field of social determinants of health”, und...
The end of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner´s government is near; time to assess the achievements of 12 years of the same government in Argentina, with (first) the late Néstor Kirchner and (then) his wife Cristina Kirchner. The Kirchners provoke passions: you either love them or hate them, and this makes an analysis of Argentina’s progress an...
This report by Sara Van Belle (Health Policy unit, ITM) provides an overview of the International Roundtable on Health Systems strengthening in Fragile settings. The Roundtable took place in Antwerp on 12 February, 2015. You can find in the report, among others, the day’s proceedings, its conclusions and recommendations for the organizers and ...
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Philippe Douste-Blazy (quoted in the piece) champions once again ‘innovative financing’, a familiar concept for the global health community. Among others, he refers to the airline levy implemented by a number of countries, which has raised “more than $2 billion to help fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, ...
From 22-23 June 2015, approximately two dozen emerging leaders from across West Africa in research, academia, health ministries and civil society gathered at the University of Ghana School of Public Health to discuss, debate and dream about the growing field of health policy and systems (HPS) in the region, and their place in it. Nine countries ...
Dear readers, if you are only interested in global health, this post is probably not for you. But if you have been following the Greek crisis more or less closely, and you feel that the logic behind it has been escaping you, read on. Be aware though that this post will leave you with more questions than answers. Creditors have been imposing au...
It’s interesting to see how even in a left-leaning institution like ITM, people have very different views on the Greek crisis, aka ”The Endgame”, as it is now called: from the almost rational to conspiracy thinking & the nearly paranoid. The fact that it’s extremely hard these days to distinguish between these extremes shows the sorry ...