Mariam Parwaiz

Articles by Mariam Parwaiz

Mariam Parwaiz is a Public Health Medicine Trainee from New Zealand, currently studying towards her MPH. She recently joined the Trainee Advisory Committee of the CUGH, and is also the social media coordinator for Women in Global Health, a global movement that calls for gender equality in global health leadership.

Healthy ecosystems as a building block of resilient health systems: Challenging health systems researchers to take action

Posted in articles by Erlyn Macarayan, Nel Jason Haw, Mariam Parwaiz and Latha Swamy on May 5, 2017

Reflections on the 2017 Consortium of Universities in Global Health held in Washington DC, USA (April 6-9) Health systems are getting more complex than ever, encompassing no longer just the typical building blocks of health systems and their interactions, but also venturing … Read more »

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Global health: Still hope for it yet

By Christopher Van Hise on September 22, 2017

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, argued in a 2014 editorial that global health, despite its stated goals to assist the Global South, primarily benefits the Global North. This controversial take on a seemingly altruistic field has been met with some support, with most citing the net flow of benefits … Read more »

Accreditation: India’s journey towards quality of care

By Manu Gupta on September 22, 2017

Quality of care in health services has been identified as one of the key elements on the path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and fundamental towards achieving the health related goals and targets outlined under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of QoC towards achieving our goals for better … Read more »

UHC for the Modern Migrant: Lessons Learned from China’s Hukou System

By Elena Schmider on September 21, 2017

With the majority of the world’s population living in urban settings, strengthening the capacity of social systems to adequately respond to the needs of mobile, urban populations, and revisiting older policies that no longer fit the needs of increasingly urban populations, is critical in the quest for universal coverage. Today’s … Read more »

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain? A few hints from the Global South

By Irene Torres and Erlyn Macarayan on September 18, 2017

The 2017 Global Evidence Summit was recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. From what we heard, it was a fascinating conference. Too bad we weren’t there. More importantly however, in spite of the organizers’ intention to be highly inclusive and diverse, and participants from 77 countries, a number of … Read more »

Confronting the soaring cost of medicines: The Latin American response

By Elena Vargas and Luis Méndez on September 15, 2017

The Sixth Regional Meeting on the Right to Health and Health Systems took place in Santiago de Chile from 6th to 8th of September. This event gathered country representatives (ministers and vice-ministers of health), academics and other stakeholders from different countries that are part of the World Bank Initiative Salud … Read more »

In Defense of Global Health

By Colt Crymes and Tyler Baker on September 12, 2017

Richard Horton published “The Case Against Global Health” in May 2014 as a summary of his role in a conference debate held by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, in Washington DC. He admitted to playing devil’s advocate by supporting the proposition that “global health investments benefit countries … Read more »

IHP | Switching the Poles in International Health Policies

switching the poles in international health policies

Articles by Mariam Parwaiz

Healthy ecosystems as a building block of resilient health systems: Challenging health systems researchers to take action