With the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Report published in September 2022, the global health community had a chance to pause, reflect and unlearn from experiences within the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings and recommendations collated by 28 world-leading experts and over 100 contributors cited several ‘hard truths and ‘wi...

I was honoured to be among those recognized at the Heroines of Health gala hosted by Women in Global Health on the sidelines of the World Health Summit. While this award shed much-needed light on traditionally unrecognized women leaders, it also reminded us that global inequities continue to shape the face of global health. As a Togolese woman w...

The EV4GH 2022 edition is on!!! This is the first complete EV4GH edition post the mobility restrictions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 – as you might recall, a short and spectacular version of the EV4GH 2020 F2F edition was held in Dubai in 2021. After a few hectic months of preparation, distance learning, and (a fair amount of) troublesho...

THEE programme of programmes has kicked off –  Emerging Voices Global Health #EV2022. We are also about a week away from the biennial Global Symposium on Health Systems Research #HSR2022. Post COVID-19 I think we’re all on shaky ground (or at least I am) when it comes to interacting with humans one again (gulp) or even having to network virtuall...

During the past decade, research about knowledge translation (KT) for evidence-informed policies (EIP) has increased significantly. KT, defined as “a dynamic and iterative process that includes the synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge in the process of decision-making”, is seen as the most efficient...

Frankly, it was good to be back in Berlin for the World Health Summit 2022, the ‘multistakeholder governance platform I love to hate”, especially after the gloomy Zoom years of Covid. The autumn colours of the city provided a nice backdrop for global health discussions, even if I personally didn’t enjoy the (mandatory) FFP2 masks much. Whi...

Global health awards recognize outstanding women in health From the front lines of the Ukraine war to the remotest parts of rural Ethiopia, the 17 awards given to the 2022 Heroines of Health Awardees recognised an extraordinary contribution to global health. (Read their remarkable stories in full) The awards, given out at the gala event “Lead...

The world is becoming progressively more urban. Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities and by 2050 the global urban population will add an additional 2.5 billion, it is expected. Arguably, most of the world’s urban growth has been taking place in the Global South. These countries have to (rapidly) move away from the t...

Travelling “out of India” for an in-person workshop for the first time in almost three years, I landed in Nairobi with anxiety and a ton of self-doubt on how I would engage with the participants of the Women in Global Health (WGH) Peer-to-Peer workshop (24-27th Sept). I had almost forgotten to be “in that zone”, not being an extrovert (r...