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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
As the Reachout consortium reminded us in a series of well tweeted-about presentations at Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 10 days ago, community health workers (CHW) need to be a centerpiece of human resource for health (HRH) policies targeting health equity, effectiveness and efficiency via universal health coverage (UHC). Their work i...
The issue of open defecation persists in India leaving millions vulnerable to disease. Is India’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) or Clean India Mission the solution to this deeply entrenched social and structural issue? Train travel on Indian railways – one of the largest train networks in the world – offers a delightful view of the co...
Sixty million people are now forcibly displaced globally and about 6% of people in low- and middle-income countries are further pushed into extreme poverty due to medical impoverishment. You don’t have to look far to realise how severe the “gap” is. Just look around: how many of the people you see have poor access to healthcare services? E...
After spending over three years tracking the evolution of the health related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Go4Health Consortium Team (a.k.a. Gophers) held its final dissemination seminar at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference ( PMAC ) in Bangkok. This year’s theme, “priority setting for UHC”, provided a focus for our end of p...
(Margaret Chan, at a press conference running 50 minutes late) Today I convened an Emergency Committee, under the International Health Regulations, to gather advice on the severity of the health threat associated with the continuing spread of silly (and thus downright dangerous) American GOP presidential candidates, also known as the ‘Am...
As many of you know, Ethiopia is one of the very few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has made substantial progress on all 2015 health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Maternal and child health statistics have improved considerably in the past decade, and the country has also made tremendous strides in the fight against HIV, malaria an...
As the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era has kicked off, on January 1st, the focus is now increasingly on national implementation, even if SDG indicators and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are still being fine-tuned. Globally, India has been engaged in the SDG indicator setting exercise as a representative (along with China) of c...
Next week, WHO’s Executive Board will discuss the draft Global Strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030. If all goes well, the final version will be endorsed at the 69th World Health Assembly in May. Workforce 2030 provides a new and progressive health workforce agenda. A decade ago, The World Health report 2006 already estimated...
I’ve always wanted to be a member of the Emerging Voices for Global Health network. I remember when it was set up it all seemed really exciting and an excellent way to learn from each other and influence others. I am sadly too old to ever get my chance at being in your very special club. But that hasn’t stopped me from plotting ways to becom...
