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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Je suis Charlie, je suis pas Charlie, je suis Ahmed, je suis Clarice; je suis all the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and of the “Kocher supermarket”, also je suis Amina, je suis Mohammad and many others… Yes I am, because they were all simply humans who died from Ignorance and Hatred. What happened over the past 7 days in Paris were dev...
2015 is money time for the sustainable development (SDG) & climate agendas. Or so we hope. Last week the campaign Action/ 2015 kicked off, among others with an open letter by a number of high profile politicians, activists and celebrities. In the letter, they address world politicians, reminding them that the actions they are going to take...
Remco Van de Pas is currently for a research assignment in Guinea, one of three countries in West Africa affected by Ebola. Together with the national research center for training and promotion of rural health (CNFRSR) of Maférinyah, Conakry, the Institute of Tropical Medicine will explore policies and possibilities to strengthen the public h...
Remco Van de Pas (ITM) is currently for a research assignment in Guinea, one of three countries in West Africa affected by Ebola. Together with the national research center for training and promotion of rural health (CNFRSR) of Maférinyah, Conakry, the Institute of Tropical Medicine will explore policies and possibilities to strengthen the ...
India has undertaken several significant health reforms in the last decade, many under the National Rural Health Mission. Many of these recent reforms were driven by the Millennium Development Goals, going beyond the targets outlined by the MDGs to address other aspects of the health system. Thirteen years after India’s last National Health Po...
(Given the content of this article, it is mostly written from a personal perspective (hence the ‘I’ in many paragraphs), especially when talking about personal experiences; yet both authors share the key messages – hence the “we’ perspective in some parts.) We’re living in a world full of turmoil. It’s perhaps always been like this; as the...
Mental health workers and activists have complained for many years about the marginal place of mental health on the public health agenda. Mental health has tended to be neglected among public health priorities and when included, it was more for rhetorical than factual reasons. But 2015 starts with two major surprises for mental health. First, in...