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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Tourists from around the world often come to Thailand to watch and ride on its lovely elephants, but last week in Bangkok, at the annual Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), more than 600 participants from 58 countries confronted the ‘elephants in the room’ of global health and development as they tackled the theme “Global Health Post-2...
The contrast has been remarkable, to say the least, between the in your face health & social situation in Guinea – which I visited a few weeks ago – and the rather formal diplomatic discussions at the WHO Executive Board Special Session on Ebola last weekend. The heat in Conakry and the cold snow in Geneva were only partly responsible for this...
For more than a year already, the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) outbreak is raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. International NGOs and other stakeholders are struggling to contain the epidemic and bend the curve. Lately we’ve been seeing encouraging progress, but the path to ‘zero Ebola cases’ is still long. All health experts ha...
It has been almost a year now since I first visited South Africa (SA) back in April 2014 for the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) conference. At that time, I visited Gauteng, Pretoria – a very beautiful city with probably many other secrets I have yet to discover. I then returned just last September for the Emerging Voices for Glob...
Je suis Charlie, je suis pas Charlie, je suis Ahmed, je suis Clarice; je suis all the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and of the “Kocher supermarket”, also je suis Amina, je suis Mohammad and many others… Yes I am, because they were all simply humans who died from Ignorance and Hatred. What happened over the past 7 days in Paris were dev...
2015 is money time for the sustainable development (SDG) & climate agendas. Or so we hope. Last week the campaign Action/ 2015 kicked off, among others with an open letter by a number of high profile politicians, activists and celebrities. In the letter, they address world politicians, reminding them that the actions they are going to take...
Remco Van de Pas is currently for a research assignment in Guinea, one of three countries in West Africa affected by Ebola. Together with the national research center for training and promotion of rural health (CNFRSR) of Maférinyah, Conakry, the Institute of Tropical Medicine will explore policies and possibilities to strengthen the public h...
Remco Van de Pas (ITM) is currently for a research assignment in Guinea, one of three countries in West Africa affected by Ebola. Together with the national research center for training and promotion of rural health (CNFRSR) of Maférinyah, Conakry, the Institute of Tropical Medicine will explore policies and possibilities to strengthen the ...
