Over the past few weeks, I have been following, with some discomfort occasionally, the conversations around women’s leadership in global health, taking place in the context of the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference (WLGH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We must be concerned that most of the conversation on gender ...

At the global level, awareness is growing on the need to include gender considerations in health policy formulation, implementation, and research. Scientific publications, blogs, and to some extent even media coverage are drawing increasing attention to the fact that while women represent half of the global population, their voice is largely und...

Last summer we decided to evaluate the newsletter. We wanted to know more about our readers, and check if we were meeting our focal goal of providing a weekly update on global health policy & governance in the health SDG era, with focus on health policy & systems research, all this of course while “Switching the Poles”. The evaluation was a ...

Antonio Gramsci wrote around 1930 that the crisis precisely consists in the fact that “The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” This quote was used by Jane Kelsey, a law professor from the University of Auckland, during the opening plenary session of the 4th People’s Heal...

Recently, the WHO Regional Office for Africa held a Forum entitled “Health systems strengthening for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (12-16 November 2018).  The Forum brought together health systems and services (HSS) focal persons in WHO country offices, and Direct...

As was  covered just last week,  the 6th  Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) venture (EV2018) took place in Liverpool last month, just before the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research.  By now, EV4GH is a global health network of almost 300 emerging and emerged voices from across the world, a network that has not only grown ...

    The best statements collected (see also on Twitter hashtag #WLGH18): “Our ceiling must be the floor of those who come after us”. “If you don’t get a seat at the table, pull up a folding chair and if they won’t let you, just sit on the table” “When a man interrupts you, keep talking. Don’t make an eye contact & pretend you did...

Last week, I came across the 10 principles of gender transformative leadership (in a Devex op-ed by Roopa Dhatt et al).  Although I’m not much of a leader (and haven’t really bothered to go through the leadership literature either), it got me thinking, and so below you find some humble suggestions for “ten principles of planetary health (...

Through winning a crowdsourcing writing contest organized by SESHGlobal, I was fortunate to attend the 2nd annual Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) Conference held in London on the 8th and 9th of November 2018 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I was one of 6 finalists (out of 311 submissions) who had proffered the top 6 ...