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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
The 6th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (Dubai 2020) intends to facilitate deeper engagement with the political forces that surround health systems. While politics exist everywhere and at all levels, there is a tendency to equate these forces with ‘Big Politics’, the power dynamics that play out at global and national levels. In ...
As the global Covid-19 pandemic seems to grow exponentially at this point, we are reminded – as so often during times of crisis – how critically important responsive systems are to prevent morbidity and mortality during an outbreak. On World TB Day, we reflect how there are obvious similarities between Covid-19 and tuberculosis (TB), especia...
Healthcare is the fundamental right of every individual. However, accessibility to quality, affordable and adequate healthcare facilities still remains a major challenge for most lower-middle income countries. Perhaps this is even more true for my country, India. As most of you will know, the World Health Organization (WHO) comprehensively defin...
At the beginning of this year, a somewhat nebulous period, when a little known disease was bubbling up in China, it was difficult to distinguish between politically motivated decisions from those taken solely based on evidence keeping public health concerns in mind. A month ago, in her early assessment of the novel coronavirus outbreak that was...
“Hey, aren’t you afraid of dying from the coronavirus? No! I’m afraid of dying dismembered and be blamed for it”, a Chilean cartoonist tweeted a few days ago. And that is more than just a perception for hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America who flocked to the streets on Sunday, in commemoration of International Women’s Da...
All four authors are also co-founders of the WGH India Chapter. We are thrilled to announce our initiative on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), and in so doing, pay tribute to all the women fighting for equal rights and equal representation at their workspaces worldwide. Despite decades of global targets on gender equality, ...
Managing an epidemic requires tackling the health consequences of the outbreak, as well as its social, political, security, and economic dimensions. This implies setting priorities and making trade-offs between various interests and goals – in short, a lot of politics. The biomedical angle: science versus politics in epidemic response? Covera...
Last weekend, Dr. Farida Al Hosani, Director of the Communicable Diseases Department at Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health, reported in a televised interview that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had confirmed 13 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to reports from the Institute of International Finance in Washington DC, the outb...
My father used to say that “there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.” In global health these days it’s difficult not to be part of the former tribe. At the start of this new decade, there are those who peddle “elixirs of optimism” about how the world has neve...