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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
The Health Ministers of the BRICS countries are convening in Brasil this week (5 December) for their fourth meeting – with BRICS cooperation on the Ebola crisis high on the agenda. These Ministers will no doubt be buoyed by the International Monetary Fund’s recent assessment of the world economy, an assessment that puts the collective econom...
Yesterday, coinciding with the start of the Lima climate change conference, a number of Belgian celebrities and climate activists went to court to sue all governments in this country (and trust me, we have quite a few over here), because Belgium isn’t doing enough to comply with its international climate commitments. (Eat that, Bob Geldof!) As...
The fourth Flagship Report of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research “Medicines in health systems: advancing access, affordability and appropriate use” was launched in Cape Town and can be downloaded here. If this was the fourth report, it means it had three predecessors. The third one, you know it very well, I am sure it’s sh...
Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is an initiative organized by a consortium of five Northern and Southern based universities with a keen interest in global health and health systems research, and in training the next generation of health systems researchers. This year’s EV4GH venture (2014) – the fourth already – was hosted by the...
Dr. Joan Awunyo-Akaba, Executive Director, Future Generations International, and Gavi (The Vaccine Alliance) CSO Board Member, discusses the critical role of civil society in holding governments accountable for the provision and delivery of health care, as Ghana finds itself poised to ‘graduate’ to middle-income status. Joan Awunyo-Akab...
Conference location: Milan, Italy Conference: Venue: Bocconi University Dates: 12-15 July 2015 Call: The coordinators of the Emerging Voices programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, in collaboration with the Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the lead Organizers of the 11th World Congress on Healt...
Over the past two decades, National AIDS Commissions (NACs) have been set up as the main organisation expected to lead, govern and coordinate national multi-sectoral AIDS responses. Many countries have adopted a similar organisational ‘model’ to carry out this mandate: a high level multi-stakeholder governing body (the Commission or Counci...
There’s no escape these days – Band Aid (version 4) is back. I’m a big fan of the cheesy song, so I’m already wandering in the streets of Antwerp to my institute in the morning, humming the old lyrics from 1984 – I’m stuck in time, I’m afraid. For a rather thorough deconstruction of the new and old lyrics, see this piece in the G...
Marsha Orgill, Sara Van Belle, Woldekidan Amde, Aku Kwamie, Thubelihle Mathole, Gaëlle Vareilles, Emilie Robert, Valeria Campos da Silveira and Bruno Marchal The authors, members of the SHAPES cluster group on ‘theory-driven inquiry’ attended the 1st International Conference on Realist Approaches to Evaluation and Synthesis in Liverpo...