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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
This week, I spent 2 days reading The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality. In this masterpiece, one of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013 (I only now managed to read it, shame on me!), Angus Deaton tells a compelling and extraordinary story of how humanity got healthy and wealthy, and why some people got so much h...
(warning: push the Boris Johnson button in your brain before you read this) I just learnt that “Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world” was chosen as the theme for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which will be held on November 14–18, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada. Great idea. Under the motto “Be ...
Sometimes even an Emerging Voice and Future Leader (hear me…) can feel a bit out of touch with our times. Now that many desperate people are trying to cross oceans and seas on very shabby boats, hoping for a better future, this January I embarked on the spectacular MSC Opera, a luxury cruise from the Cape of Storms to the stunning Namibian Des...
Recently we did a ‘targeted survey’ of the IHP newsletter among 100 subscribers we consider as more or less representative of the (multiple) target audiences we aim for with the weekly IHP newsletter. The response rate was more than decent (47 out of 100 filled in the survey). By now we duly wrote a proper, short & “action-oriented” re...
All nations are currently working (hard, we hope) towards a new global climate change agreement which will hopefully materialize at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in December this year. France will host COP 21, which is why the all-important meeting is also...
These are interesting times in India, no doubt. Our new prime minister, Narendra Modi is ensuring that India’s global reputation as a progressive, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society with a rich history is not tarnished by several recent reports of sexual violence on women or inter-religious conflict. Immediately after assuming office abou...
One of the perils of ignoring the environment is the consequent failure to notice that the environment never ignores you. Healthy environments support human health and flourishing even as conservation secures natural resources and livelihoods. On the flip side, environmental degradation rebounds as economic losses, while pollution strikes at the...
Environmentalists watched as if in a trance, The negotiations that happened in Paris, France. But it was the same old show, As they all want to “grow”, And so there was no change in stance. This limerick portrays a situation which some of us don’t want to witness in a few months’ time. As we embark on another World Environment Day c...
In India, we are the people who for centuries have been working hard, day and night to feed the whole nation. We ensure that our countrymen can get a decent meal for less than a dollar. However, our own per capita income is less than two dollars a day. What a paradox! Yes, I am talking about the farmers in India. This is the group of people in w...