Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically over the past few decades, but this success story has uncovered another critical healthcare challenge: the cardiovascular complications of cancer treatments. Now, cancer survivors are increasingly dying from cardiovascular problems, either related to cancer therapies or due to the increasingly kno...

About a month ago, multiple news outlets in India reported on a rather troubling proposal – the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), India’s national drug regulatory authority, was apparently likely to ban the sale of over-the-counter hormonal contraceptives, including emergency contraceptive (EC) pills across the country, ba...

Girls in Ethiopia often reach puberty without receiving adequate, accurate, or timely information on menstruation, including how to maintain menstrual health and its links to pregnancy. Many girls experience stigma, shame, school absenteeism, and unintended pregnancy due to this lack of knowledge. While attention to menstrual health and hygiene ...

Just a few weeks ago, from the 10th to 13th September, around 1800 people gathered in Prague for the Global Evidence Summit (GES). Although it may feel as a distant memory, the energy and the conversation from the event continue to resonate. This year’s theme for the GES, ‘Using Evidence. Improving Lives’, captured a vision that connects w...

The World Health Summit (WHS) has been there for a while, but the edition of 2024 was my first one: I joined the more than 3,500 participants from 140 countries, squeezed in the JV Marriott in Berlin, and tried my best to navigate the different sessions. Sometimes I got stranded in front of an already-full room or an “invitation-only” event....

In a world rife with conflicts and wars, the (ongoing) violence in Manipur, India, has largely faded from the international spotlight. Even so, the effects on local people, particularly women, remain severe and devastating. At the same time, though, women are leading the charge to promote peace. This article will highlight the critical role that...

Don’t get carried away by the title of the blog, I am certainly no influencer, not by a long stretch but I wanted to grab your attention😊. When I had the career turning point of being part of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) Programme in 2014, I took to blogging and absolutely loved it. Starting off with IHP blogs, I soon began to...

Adolescent pregnancy has multiple consequences for the adolescent mother, including disruption to schooling, and for the baby, such as increased risk of mortality, morbidity, and undernutrition. Adolescent childbearing is underpinned by multiple social determinants, including inequities in access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services....

The intricate relationship between war and public health has been a tragic reality throughout human history. However, today’s world faces an unprecedented convergence of armed conflicts, with the wars in Gaza, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Yemen, Syria and Ukraine each leaving deep scars on health systems and civilian populations....