This week’s Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Geneva concluded with a powerful message from Dr. Tedros, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), reminding us that health and care workers deserve more than just thanks. “They deserve quality education and training, they deserve safe working conditions, th...

As U.S. and other NATO troops are leaving Afghanistan, and the macro-economic situation deteriorating rapidly,  the country finds itself once again on the brink of collapse. Echoes of desperation, fear, helplessness, and chaos fill the air as the Taliban take back control and are cracking down on individuals they believe to have helped or wor...

It has been one full year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As most of you will know, while the health impact so far has been bad enough, the social and economic fallout of the pandemic also had a negative impact on gender equality. To be honest, it does not surprise me that COVID-19 has disproportionately...

This article was co-authored by Shehnaz Munshi, María Rodríguez, Olivia Biermann, Veronica Osorio Calderon, Gloria Nenita Velasco, Shweta Singh, & Fiona C. Kaikai  (all EVs2018)   The Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH)  program started in 2010 as an innovative initiative by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM), with Pro...