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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
If you follow a bit the debate on hazard pay for medical staff in Liberia, with a monthly hazard pay of less than $ 500 dollar for nurses (which has obviously led to calls for a strike), and contrast this with the (recently boosted) weekly salary of Eden Hazard, Chelsea football player (now 240 000 Euro), you know the world has gone mad. (Di...
It’s been a week since the 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, and I’m still puzzled by how it closed. It felt a bit anti-climactic that after a week of discussing why a systems approach– grounded in social justice, with enough attention paid to system complexities– is necessary to improve health outcomes in an effective and sus...
As I got ready to jet off back to Johannesburg, South Africa, I reflected on the two weeks I spent in Cape Town, undoubtedly one of the most beautiful cities in South Africa. I was privileged to be selected and fully sponsored to participate in the Emerging Voices programme as well as the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Born a...
Two and a half weeks Cape Town aren’t yet out of my (I’m afraid not so complex) system, but I thought I’d try to put together some thoughts on the third HSR Symposium anyway. Not very systematically, but rather in a random way, the way Donald Sutherland (not the ‘Hunger games’ actor) started his pitch on Vancouver, the venue for the ...
As the third global symposium on health systems research draws to an end in Cape Town, on Thursday we had an exciting and energizing discussion in the session entitled “Gender and rights-oriented health systems research: methodological approaches and challenges”. It was realized that there are important sexual and reproductive health challen...
Health systems are increasingly being understood and described as complex adaptive systems. I attended an interesting discussion the other day at Health Systems Global on “Postings and Transfers” of healthcare staff, a cross-cutting issue in most countries, where a former bureaucrat from an Indian state was invited to share about measures th...
“As we walked out of the room, we knew that things would never be the same again. We were very happy… felt so confident, inspired and prepared to create change for global health across the world” (EV 2014) On 29 September 2014, the emerging voices together with the emerging leaders held their pre-conference program at the University of Wes...
( Program manager/Researcher School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa) There is no gardening without humility. Alfred Austin For over two weeks (since 18 August), members of Emerging Voices for Global Health 2014, with the help of expert facilitation from Bruno Marchal and Peter Hill, embarked on the daunting ta...
Election Statement: ‘As a young individual I hope to be that fresh and determined voice which will stand not as an individual but as a representative of all of you, to bring together our valuable research and insight and translating it into knowledge, policy improvements and ultimately building a global movement which will lead to affordable...