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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
In last week’s New Leaders for Health (NL4H) Pre-Forum in Manila, four Emerging Voices alumni – three from Class 2014 (Renzo Guinto, Nasreen Jessani, Bhaskar Purohit) and one from Class 2012 (Beverly Ho) – participated in a panel entitled “Emerging Voices for Global Health: The Future of Health Systems Research.” The panel aimed to...
“All animals (patients) are equal, it’s just that some are more equal than others” I recently attended the Leadership Management and Governance Training for Health Systems Strengthening in Africa. The training is hosted by Amref Health Africa in Kenya. It was an exciting two weeks, during which I had the opportunity to interact with ...
Let’s face it: I am a great fan of Mission: Impossible. It started with the TV series (and you may be surprised to learn that the great Leonard Nimoy himself even played in some episodes), and continued with the movies as yes, I am the generation of teenage girls that fell in love with Tom Cruise in Top Gun (and hopefully got over it). Above a...
Imagine you’re in a room full of computer monitors and while inside, you ask “Which vaccine would have been most cost-efficient for disease X?”. Only seconds later, the room would turn into an amazing room full of data presented in very engaging and interactive visuals showing you state of the art simulations, discussing your different pol...
This morning the article “Have tenured academic position, will travel (frequently)” in the Sydney Morning Herald caught my attention via Twitter. The issues pointed out in the article, summarized aptly in the introductory paragraph as ‘Academics’ travel to overseas conferences is expensive and environmentally damaging but many see it as a ...
As health system researchers, how do we contribute to a paradigm shift? How do we move the focus from disease specific/fragmented health programs towards integrated, patient-centred health systems, especially given the abundance of disease-specific funding? At the recent International AIDS Society conference in Vancouver, Canada I lauded the as...
I’m at FfD3, which stands for Third Conference on Financing for Development, in Addis. Why? I’m not an economist, nor a development expert and certainly no politician. I work for a medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The environment we work in is strongly defined by development politics. The current move away...
‘Resisting Resilience’ was the title of the most inspiring presentation I attended in the last half year. Early June, Mark Neocleous, a professor of the Critique of Political Economy, presented his view at a conference on the resilience discourse organized by Medico International in Frankfurt. If you want to know what makes his argument ...
I recently started reading the book ‘To save humanity’ (edited by Julio Frenk & Steven Hoffman), after receiving it as a present from my colleague Gorik Ooms. It’s a collection of essays, and I’m not far yet. Witnessing the almost criminal “spectacle” over the last weeks and especially days in Brussels, one cannot help but wonder whe...