(this blog is the write-up of an interview by Action for Global Health  with Rob on UHC)   When it comes to health, divided we fall, united we stand. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day has mobilised over 400 organisations from over 80 countries. Indeed, you have the likes of the World Bank, Oxfam and Action for Global Health working together t...

It has been reported that households with (a) differently-abled member(s) tend to face extreme poverty; including food insecurity, poor housing and sanitation as well as inadequate access to healthcare. Ageing is often coupled with physical, hearing or sight disabilities. With rapidly ageing populations across many developing and developed natio...

Ever had the thought after listening to a number of mildly interesting presentations and conclusions from research at a conference, colloquium or any other fancy gathering that you heard it all before?  That it all sounded strangely familiar? Put differently, that you left a “high-level” research event with the odd feeling that the conclusi...

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...