The EV secretariat at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp would like to provide an opportunity for young to midcareer researchers to spend dedicated time in the form of a residency at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. The call is open only for alumni of the Emerging Voices...

At the beginning of November, a group of policy-makers, experts and health practitioners convened in Beirut, Lebanon, to exchange on the Eastern Mediterranean region’s governance challenges, and to launch the first Regional chapter of the Health Systems Governance Collaborative. Countries in the Region have been grappling with health system go...

A number of Emerging Voices (alumni) and other young researchers reflected on 2018 from a global health point of view, on our request. Some also came up with suggestions for the following year(s). You find their short quotes below. We hope they inspire you in the year to come! “Reaffirming primary health care as the most equitable and sustaina...

New Delhi just witnessed the conclusion  of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) Forum meeting.  Started in 2005,  the Partnership, as it is referred to, was formed to strengthen consensus building to support the achievement of the MDGs (especially MDG 4 & 5) and to focus on the importance of the continuum of care espec...

‘Caught between a rock and a hard place’ is the expression (and Stones song ) that comes to mind having visited Marrakesh recently. Until a few months before the adoption of the (now notorious) UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, quiet diplomacy and technical discussions guided its development process. At the time of t...

Several recent prominent global health events – the Health Systems Research Symposium in Liverpool, and the Women Leaders in Global Health event in London among them – demonstrated interest in the role of power in health systems and in health systems research.  A group of interested researchers and practitioners affiliated with SHAPES (Soci...

“I did not choose to be HIV positive, I was born with it. When I go to the hospital the nurses are very mean to me. They neglect me and at times throw insults at me.  At times they task me to sort my treatment file among a pile of many files, without which they will not give me drugs. Worst of all in my school the teacher isolated me from the...

The International Health Policies (IHP) newsletter started in 2009-2010, back then as an initiative of the health policy unit at ITM, with David Hercot and Wim Van Damme as the key initiators. The Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD) has supported us from the start, and we’re very grateful for that. Very early on, a  weekly newsletter focusi...

I feel compelled to react on the recent  blog  by Willem Van De Put and Werners Soors (“The ITM symposium on 40 years PHC: is there a doctor in the house?”) , in which they gave their take on the ITM symposium on 40 years Primary Healthcare (October 23rd ), and more specifically to their statements regarding the last panel discussion. ( I ...