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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Early May, a review paper on Ebola published in the New England Journal of Medicine triggered some controversy, being authored by researchers from high-income countries only. Among other things, the review reminded us that safe burial practices that respect cultural values are needed to prevent Ebola transmission during traditional funerals. Th...
Policymaking is an inherently political process marked, more often than not, by ambiguity, negotiations and shifting priorities. Policy actors (elected leaders, bureaucrats, technocrats, civil society activists, lobbyists, media…) play an important role in agenda setting and policy formulation – stages we will focus on in this article. Each ...
It’s that time of the year again. Happy European spring days where one would usually see country delegates and the global health crowd gathering at the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva. A bit like cows entering a meadow after a year in their stalls. Each year at the WHA, country delegates come together to agree upon some sensitive ...
If the world needed proof of international cooperation in the midst of the ever-widening gulfs between increasingly nationalistic democracies, it got one – the first ever virtual World Health Assembly that concluded 19th May. Not only did capitals express solidarity (many, dialling in from cloistered chambers), there was a resounding support for...
The novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sent the world into a state of panic leading, among others, to closure of international borders and the threat of another global economic meltdown. The global health security crisis also tests the resilience and functioning of health systems all over the world. In less than five months, COVID...
At the time of writing this article, more than 4 million people globally have fallen prey to the novel Corona virus, with over 248 thousand deaths, and the end is not in sight. According to the latest WHO situation report (as of May 11), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has entered the community transmission phase of the pandemic with 18, 198 conf...
The Community Health Worker Common Indicators Project How should community health worker (CHW) programs be evaluated? A collaborative team recently published an important article advancing an answer to this pressing question, focused on CHW programs in low- and middle-income countries. Here, we provide a complementary answer to this question, ...
The climate change and Covid-19 space has been abuzz with the narrative of ‘Nature is Healing’ centred around the drastic decrease in air pollution across hotspots in China, India, Europe, and the United States. The positive impacts seem to be cascading through articles with fake news of dolphins returning to the Venetian Lagoon, people in S...
On May 4, some of the world’s major global-health actors and political powers joined forces and pledged close to $8 billion (€7.5 billion), within a few hours, to accelerate the development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. The Coronavirus Global Response pledging conference came on the hee...
