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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Last week marked the annual Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH), bringing together academics, practitioners, and policy makers around the theme of governance – specifically, the power and politics that have become so characteristic of global health today. From October 17-19 ( with a side event on the 20th), the focus was on all cou...
This past week, over 500 academics, activists, practitioners and community members gathered in New Delhi for the Community of Practice on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) 2019 Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health. Despite its jargon-laden title, the Symposium itself offered stimulating and ...
Funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is based on the organization of conferences during which various donors (States and private actors) make financial commitments for the next three years. After Canada (in 2016), France just hosted the latest edition, on October 9 and 10, 2019, at the Centre de Congrès in Lyon, u...
This morning I felt chirpy and on top of things. I fitted in a cycle-ride early morning, had a great conversation over chai mid-morning, and I could re-schedule events so I could collect my daughter staying late at soccer practice. I have skills to deal with stressful events and know where to get help if I am mentally distressed and largely beca...
La crise sécuritaire s’aggrave dans le Centre du Mali, dans la zone des trois frontières (Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger). L’insécurité et la peur ont entrainé une forte dégradation de l’accès aux soins de santé pour les populations et l’État est en manque d’initiatives pour y faire face. Pour pallier cette absence de l’État, ...
I was this week in New York, at the United Nations. More specifically I participated in the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage as a representative of the Medicus Mundi International Network Health for All! The UHC meeting was part of a series of high-level political meetings taking place before and during the 74th session of the ...
Last week’s Third Planetary Health meeting in Palo Alto at Stanford University marked nearly four years since the Lancet with support from the Rockefeller foundation launched The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The same year (2015), Wellcome Trust established the Our planet, Our health: responding to a changing ...
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 ...
