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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Our Newsletter’s editor-in-chief (allow me to call you like that, Kristof) is a very curious guy. An early draft of Sara and Pierre’s Featured Article for this week’s IHP issue, ‘Health in Argentina’ had only just landed on his desk (the draft included a reference to “achievements in the field of social determinants of health”, und...
The end of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner´s government is near; time to assess the achievements of 12 years of the same government in Argentina, with (first) the late Néstor Kirchner and (then) his wife Cristina Kirchner. The Kirchners provoke passions: you either love them or hate them, and this makes an analysis of Argentina’s progress an...
This report by Sara Van Belle (Health Policy unit, ITM) provides an overview of the International Roundtable on Health Systems strengthening in Fragile settings. The Roundtable took place in Antwerp on 12 February, 2015. You can find in the report, among others, the day’s proceedings, its conclusions and recommendations for the organizers and ...
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Philippe Douste-Blazy (quoted in the piece) champions once again ‘innovative financing’, a familiar concept for the global health community. Among others, he refers to the airline levy implemented by a number of countries, which has raised “more than $2 billion to help fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, ...
From 22-23 June 2015, approximately two dozen emerging leaders from across West Africa in research, academia, health ministries and civil society gathered at the University of Ghana School of Public Health to discuss, debate and dream about the growing field of health policy and systems (HPS) in the region, and their place in it. Nine countries ...
Dear readers, if you are only interested in global health, this post is probably not for you. But if you have been following the Greek crisis more or less closely, and you feel that the logic behind it has been escaping you, read on. Be aware though that this post will leave you with more questions than answers. Creditors have been imposing au...
It’s interesting to see how even in a left-leaning institution like ITM, people have very different views on the Greek crisis, aka ”The Endgame”, as it is now called: from the almost rational to conspiracy thinking & the nearly paranoid. The fact that it’s extremely hard these days to distinguish between these extremes shows the sorry ...
This week, I spent 2 days reading The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality. In this masterpiece, one of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013 (I only now managed to read it, shame on me!), Angus Deaton tells a compelling and extraordinary story of how humanity got healthy and wealthy, and why some people got so much h...
(warning: push the Boris Johnson button in your brain before you read this) I just learnt that “Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world” was chosen as the theme for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which will be held on November 14–18, 2016 in Vancouver, Canada. Great idea. Under the motto “Be ...