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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Ethnic minority groups tend to be marginalised across the globe, and the situation might be even worse in South Asia. Nepal, the country where I’m from, is a multi-ethnic (125 ethnic groups) and multilingual (92 spoken languages) country with still lingering caste-based hierarchies. In this hierarchical system, set up (formally) mid-19th centu...
Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in the 19th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry in Lisbon (21-24 August). In case you didn’t know, WPA stands for ‘World Psychiatric Association’. But as we all know (or should know), there is no health without mental health, and I was therefore proud to represent ITM at this Congress! Back in ...
A few weeks ago the near-final political declaration of the UN High level Meeting (UNHLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) became available. The main contentious issues are on language related to sexual and reproductive health, rights and gender equality (par. 68 & 69) and access to health care for migrants, refugees, internally displaced pers...
My grandmother, later alone my mother were smallholder farmers in Uganda, and I grew up in the era where malaria was highly prevalent. So, I think I qualify to tell you a little bit about pesticide use for food production and public health. Quickly, I have witnessed both the use of sustainable (unconventional) and conventional food production pr...
Assaulting medical staff at government hospitals has unfortunately become a common phenomenon in the Indian subcontinent these days, and India is certainly not an exception. According to a study by the Indian Medical Association, over 75% of Indian doctors have already faced violence at work. The risk of violent incidents (with almost 70 % of ...
Last week, the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health’s Report – The health of a world on the move – was formerly launched in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Using the attention drawn by this event, the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), alongside colleagues in Demography and Public Health, held a...
In many countries around the globe, the debate in the public arena has become harsh. Yes, the Internet and social media platforms have dramatically multiplied opportunities for people to share opinions, comment on social, cultural and political events, interact with like-minded and other people,… which is great. At the same time, however, this...
The interconnections between climate and human health are now widely recognised: by scientists, by policymakers and by communities experiencing the effects of the #ClimateEmergency first-hand. From the global health perspective, the evidence base for the links between health and climate change is growing. Dots are being connected between dengu...
Over 250 delegates from 30 countries met in the beautiful city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the Global Conference on Implementation Science (GCIS) between 28th June to 1st July of 2019. This was the first time that such a global conference on implementation science was organized in a low-income country. The conference was co-hosted by the Centre fo...
