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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
On December 6th, 2023, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in collaboration with the EU Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) released the first-ever European List of Critical Medicines. This list includes 200 medicines whose “continued supply is considered a priority in the EU, to avoid serious harm to patients and help healthcare systems functi...
Intersectionality is an approach that recognises the complex interplay of social identities like gender, ethnicity, and social position, among others, with oppressive and discriminatory systems of power (eg. sexism, classism). It’s a theoretical and practical tool for deep analysis of health inequalities, essential for crafting effective interve...
If there’s one part of Tim Schwab’s “reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire” (the book’s subtitle) you read, make it the conclusion. Schwab asks some fundamental questions on these final pages: Should one person, “any person – no matter how benevolent or well intentioned” have obscene amounts of wealth and extreme power?...
First things first, I won’t write here about the existential threat of Artificial Intelligence (a common topic these days), as I don’t want to risk a Dunning-Kruger effect. You might want to listen to the related experts on that issue. Here, instead, I will explore opportunities for the intersection between a complex tool, Generative AI, and...
Over the past few days, I attended the 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2023) in Lusaka, Zambia. Organised by Africa CDC and hosted by the Zambian ministry of health this year, the annual conference unites people from across Africa to exchange knowledge, share resources, and disseminate best practices. The theme of ...
World Children’s Day is a beautiful day that comes every year on the 20th of November to celebrate all the efforts made to protect a child’s wellbeing all over the world. This day is always different for a Palestinian child. But let’s have a look at what it has been for a child in Gaza in 2023, more in particular in the past month and a half...
We are pleased to announce the IHP call for correspondents 2024. Each year, the weekly International Health Policies (IHP) Newsletter & network issues a call for correspondents to contribute to the newsletter. The weekly IHP newsletter/digest is a flagship knowledge management activity of the IHP network, funded by the Belgian Government (DGD), ...
Neuroaesthetics (or neuroart) is an emerging field within cognitive neuroscience that investigates the benefits of incorporating some kind of creative activity in your regular schedule and advocates living a life that is aesthetically pleasing to your brain. I recently learnt about neuroaesthetics from a podcast where neuroscientist Tara Swart d...
The Palestine-Israel crisis might make one wonder: what happened to the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human rights? Is it still true that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights….”? And if it is not, who decides the values of human lives and their deservingness of freedom? More specifically in this c...
