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We are pleased to announce the IHP call for correspondents 2023. Each year, the weekly International Health Policies Newsletter & network issues a call for correspondents to contribute to the newsletter. The weekly IHP newsletter/digest is a flagship knowledge management activity of the IHP network, funded by the Belgian Government (DGD), provid...
Trust in the patient-provider relationship is a crucial aspect of providing good care. However, in areas with high levels of systemic poverty this trust is fragile and more challenging to establish. Additionally, many health systems in the Global South are vestiges of colonial health structures that served to support first and foremost the colon...
It was a Sunday evening in Mumbai, end of October, when Spain edged past Colombia to retain the under-17 Women’s football World Cup. In India – a country that loves cricket, already there was football fever, weeks before other countries and regions in the world! Earlier in October, I had been listening (during a WHO FB Live chat) to Dalim...
Courtrooms are not the first place our minds go when thinking about venues for “routine” policy engagement in the health sector. And yet, a growing body of work suggests that courts are tied up in a vast number of threads in health policy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), in some cases building on foundational judgments in many co...
The pandemic has tinkered with our work/life balance, but despite that, work continues to play an essential role in our lives. It is, therefore, important to cultivate uplifting work environments. But how do we go about achieving that in the global health ecosystem? In this article, as two mid-career African health experts, we share our perspect...
The interdependence of people, animals and the environment is the foundation of the One Health movement. We, three Emerging Voices alumni from three different countries, were naturally on the lookout for the spirit of oneness at the 7th World One Health Congress in Singapore, from 7 to 11 November 2022. Situated at the Sands Expo and Convention ...
Global health is an area that requires cross collaboration between parties of varying expertise across different geographical locations. As such, these collaborations rely on strong collaboration between global South and global North partners. However, the majority of the in-person events, for example meetings, conferences and trainings take pla...
Less than a week has passed since the successful conclusion of the 8th edition of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) program. This year’s EV venture (EV2022) was held in Colombia, in sync with the Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2022) in Bogota (31 Oct-4 Nov). By now, sixty people, including participants and fa...
In 2021, the World Health Organization released the Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT), revision VI, to support member states to strengthen national regulatory systems. GBT strongly supports the concept of regulatory reliance. The reliance concept is grounded in the idea that a national regulator relies on and adopts decisions taken by a regulator i...
