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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
The Ebola epidemic in the Western African Region has reminded the international community why it is so important to have a skilled health workforce in place to provide essential and universal health services. It is a crucial requirement to contain outbreaks of re-emerging infectious diseases. Sadly, it is this very scarce workforce that has be...
In many ways, those of us who are academics live for scholarly journals. The research and commentary published in them are what we are judged by; the measure of an academic’s value, a false and perverse measure no less. Journals set the debate (or have the power to do so), arbitrate which knowledge is legitimate, what the right methods are, wh...
The Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) community in India and beyond is eagerly awaiting the roll out of the inaugural KEYSTONE course. KEYSTONE is a nationwide HPSR capacity building initiative, coordinated and convened by Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) as a Nodal Institute of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Re...
A plethora of examples, a panoply of presentations, and a parade of tweets (@resupmeetup) and blogs. This overflowing energy and overwhelming activity is the hallmark of all major conferences these days. So what makes the ResUpMeetUp symposium unique? Well for starters, the 2 day symposium complemented with a 2 day training workshop focuse...
Valentine is coming, as you might know (or prefer to ignore), and some wicked commercial minds in Belgium have decided that ‘The time is Now’ to release ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, the movie version. As you can imagine, no sensible man wants to see this movie with his partner or lover, so Belgian movie theatres organize ‘Ladies at the Movi...
Tourists from around the world often come to Thailand to watch and ride on its lovely elephants, but last week in Bangkok, at the annual Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), more than 600 participants from 58 countries confronted the ‘elephants in the room’ of global health and development as they tackled the theme “Global Health Post-2...
The contrast has been remarkable, to say the least, between the in your face health & social situation in Guinea – which I visited a few weeks ago – and the rather formal diplomatic discussions at the WHO Executive Board Special Session on Ebola last weekend. The heat in Conakry and the cold snow in Geneva were only partly responsible for this...
For more than a year already, the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) outbreak is raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. International NGOs and other stakeholders are struggling to contain the epidemic and bend the curve. Lately we’ve been seeing encouraging progress, but the path to ‘zero Ebola cases’ is still long. All health experts ha...
It has been almost a year now since I first visited South Africa (SA) back in April 2014 for the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN) conference. At that time, I visited Gauteng, Pretoria – a very beautiful city with probably many other secrets I have yet to discover. I then returned just last September for the Emerging Voices for Glob...