Every HSR symposium I’ve attended so far was different –  the location certainly has something to do with that.  Liverpool was in many ways – with exception of the visa issues for too many people, unfortunately (which were beyond the organizers’ control)  – a great host. Having said that, I also learned a lesson last week: that, increasin...

Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is an innovative multi-partner blended training program for young, promising and emerging health policy & systems researchers, decisionmakers and other health system actors with an interest in becoming influential global health voices and/or local change makers. EV4GH coaches “Emerging Voices” to par...

A group of young special guests in Liverpool…Who are they?   Since September 28, 2018, the city of Liverpool has been stormed by a group of young people coming from across five continents. I am not talking about the academic return of students who traditionally at this time of the year make alive this vibrant student city; nor do I speak of th...

It was a rainy night, as I made preparations to go to Bangalore for my visa verification interview. I had already postponed the appointment twice in the same month, because of the worst flood that affected our state (Kerala, India) in a long time. It had been difficult to find transportation anywhere, and I had been with the flood victims in the...

After scaling the near impossible hurdle of travelling on a Nigerian passport to a high risk country, I was thrilled to be attending the International Conference on Maternal and Reproductive Health, held between the 20th and 21st of September and co-organised by The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), the Global Health N...

In our recent chapter in the ORF–OCPP Global Policy volume “Securing the 21st Century Mapping India-Africa Engagement”, we argue that future health systems in India and Africa are going to become more alike than they have been before, and that it is crucial for them to learn from each other. We analyze two types of health system innovations ...

A distance learning phase forms part of the build-up to the face to face training of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) programme in Liverpool. In August, the Emerging Voice 2018 (EV2018) cohort, working with EV alumni and experts in global health, took part in thematic discussion sessions and shared ideas on “Global health in the a...

Ending the HIV epidemic by 2030 is undoubtedly a noble endeavour, and is the aim put forward by the UN in SDG 3.3. In full, the target states: “By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases”. To quantify the current progress...

India’s journey towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is gaining special attention since the Modi Government announced the country’s largest health care programme ever, named ‘Ayushman Bharat’ on 1st Feb, 2018 – just a year before the general elections scheduled in 2019. By way of example, Richard Horton discusses in this week’s Lanc...