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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Mental health workers and activists have complained for many years about the marginal place of mental health on the public health agenda. Mental health has tended to be neglected among public health priorities and when included, it was more for rhetorical than factual reasons. But 2015 starts with two major surprises for mental health. First, in...
(1st part of two-part communication – you find the second part here ) Despite widespread global awareness of the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa, humanitarian and relief organizations on the ground say the current response is inadequate to effectively contain the epidemic, even if some progress is noticeable. The debate on the internation...
(2nd part of two-part communication – you find the first part here ) Let’s now try to come up with an early analysis of the overall African response till now, after our – admittedly – ‘quick & dirty’ mapping effort (see the first part of this communication). A very preliminary analysis, obviously, as the Ebola outbreak is far from ove...
The last few decades have seen a proliferation of research in the domain of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Major technological advances in medicine and various healthcare innovations have little chances of succeeding if robust country, provincial and local health systems are lacking. HPSR brings together various disciplines to push f...
As 2014 draws to a close and 2015 is approaching, a presumably Very Important Year for Humanity, I thought I’d offer a short reflection in line with the harmonious ‘end of the year’ spirit. Deep down, you know, I still dream of a Harmonious World, having lived in Hu Jintao’s wonderfully Harmonious Society for a couple of years. But the w...
Last Friday, December 12, World Universal Health Coverage day was celebrated for the first time. This is meant to be a day to celebrate progress made by the world towards the achievement of UHC. It is also intended as a day for advocacy and to hold leaders accountable towards the provision of equitable health care for all – as a case in poin...
(this blog is the write-up of an interview by Action for Global Health with Rob on UHC) When it comes to health, divided we fall, united we stand. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day has mobilised over 400 organisations from over 80 countries. Indeed, you have the likes of the World Bank, Oxfam and Action for Global Health working together t...
It has been reported that households with (a) differently-abled member(s) tend to face extreme poverty; including food insecurity, poor housing and sanitation as well as inadequate access to healthcare. Ageing is often coupled with physical, hearing or sight disabilities. With rapidly ageing populations across many developing and developed natio...
Ever had the thought after listening to a number of mildly interesting presentations and conclusions from research at a conference, colloquium or any other fancy gathering that you heard it all before? That it all sounded strangely familiar? Put differently, that you left a “high-level” research event with the odd feeling that the conclusi...