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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Even if you don’t watch ‘The Newsroom’, you know the 24-hour news cycle goes fast. Too fast, more precisely. Last week the boat tragedies in the Mediterranean were on all screens, this week it’s the earthquake in Nepal that is dominating the news (well, there’s still the Greek hero on the beach for the romantic ladies). Both are horrif...
In 1994, 179 UN member countries made a visionary commitment in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Amidst sustained advocacy by 30,000 NGO representatives, delegates came to a negotiated consensus that individual health and wellbeing, the protection and promotion of human rights, and the advancement of se...
This morning, as we were gathering for one of our (nowadays rather common) “strategic meetings” at the public health department of this institute, to “boldly go where synergies can be found and preferably costs can be cut”, at some point my colleague Bruno Marchal made an intervention, in trademark Autobahn way. Bruno has just been app...
Book Review: African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future Oxford University Press; October 28, 2014; 368 pages There have been several complaints about how the story of the response to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is being told in the media; about how the stories sometimes do not match reality on the ...
In this short blog I hope to explain how the two-week KEYSTONE course (23 February-6 March) in Delhi has transformed me by giving me a much wider field of vision. In these two weeks, it’s safe to say that I was pretty much “reborn” as a health policy and systems researcher, getting to know plenty of new lenses to understand the world and h...
I’ve been thinking a bit lately on how the post-2015 sustainable development (SDG) agenda could be promoted so that all people in the world would recognize it as their common agenda. I’ve come to the conclusion that, on top of a number of clear and hopefully measurable goals, targets and indicators, for an agenda as broad as this one, we als...
On April 10 and 11, all eyes in the Western Hemisphere will be on Panama City, hosting the Summit of the Americas. This event has been taking place every three years since 1994, and gathers around 34 members of the Organization of American States (OAS) to discuss present and future challenges of the region that comprises North, Central and South...
Two weeks ago Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes, a couple sharing the pursuit of “understanding and social justice” published a commentary on the upcoming SDGs. We find the article very useful in that it provides a good review of how health will be positioned in the post-2015 development era, and more specifically on how a single health goal and re...
I visited the movie theatre with my wife a few nights ago in Pune City, and we were excited to catch Kingsman – The Secret Service. It did not disappoint. With a healthy mixture of comedy, politically incorrect drama, and good action, it was quite a treat. Despite that, after exiting the hall, I was left with the same troubling feeling I got aft...