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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
In spite of renewed global focus to tackle adolescent SRH challenges in recent years, the picture in Kenya remains rather grim: between June 2016 and June 2017, 378, 397 adolescent girls aged 10-19 years presented with pregnancies in health facilities across 47 counties in the country. This translates to over 300,000 adolescent girls whose liv...
Between 25th and 28th June, we attended the ICPP2019, short for ‘the 4th International Conference on Public Policy 2019’. Our first impression of the conference in Montreal was the overwhelming breadth of policy areas discussed at this international platform. The conference sessions overall gave a glimpse of policy, political and governanc...
Ahead of the graduation ceremony of the 12th cohort of the European Public Health master’s programme in Rennes, France ( of which I am a proud graduate as well J), I thought it would be a nice idea to ask my fellow public health colleagues a question I have been trying to answer for a long time: what should be done differently, at the global a...
On June 17 2019, doctors across India in both public and private sectors boycotted non-essential medical services, responding to a call for a nationwide strike a few days earlier by the Indian Medical Association (IMA). The strike was in solidarity with junior doctors in West Bengal who were protesting a violent attack against doctors at a publi...
In 2018, a record 70.8 million people around the world fled their homes searching for safe haven, 2.8 million people were new refugees and asylum-seekers. Of 41.3 million internally displaced people, around 13.6 million were newly displaced last year. Ten million were stateless, without access to basic rights such as education, health, and dec...
