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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Health inequities are significantly driven by social processes such as stigma, prejudice, discrimination, social exclusion, and marginalization. Yet, until the first half of the 20th century, these processes were rarely considered while explaining differences in health outcomes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of an un...
I ‘ve just been to a place that not only dealt with a war in the nineties, but in more recent times also with an earthquake, flooding ( in 2020 and again in 2023), a summer storm that damaged 10.000 trees, a heatwave, the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as economic instability and inflation. The country also introduced the Euro this year – ano...
The United Nations High Level Meetings (UN HLMs) are convened by the UN General Assembly, the main decision-making body of the UN that represents the interests of all member states. Importantly, UN HLMs are seen as the most conducive platform to raise political priorities that are plaguing the world. As the three UN HLMs on health in the New Yor...
Resilient PHC: The Foundation of UHC in the SDG era In the 2018 Declaration of Astana, the global health community renewed its commitments to sustainable Primary Health Care (PHC) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Five years later, it feels like an opportune moment to review the strides made since then, as well as the challenges faced on the ...
In recent years, the world has witnessed an alarming increase in the numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs). Today, IDPs represent the majority of the world’s displaced, with 71.1 million IDPs globally at the end of 2022. Of these, 62.5 million had been affected by conflict or violence and 8.7 million by disasters. Research suggests that...
The 6th edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6) was held between June 27th and 29th, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. ICPP6 had 1180 registered participants coming from 78 different countries. It is one of the world’s largest international events on public policy: no less than 1522 papers related to various public policies wer...
On 31st July 2023, Chetan Singh, a 33-year-old constable of the Railway Protection Force in India, opened fire killing four men on a Mumbai-bound train. Three of the four victims were Muslim men sporting markers of their Muslim identity. The fourth was his superior – an assistant sub-inspector – with whom the assailant had had an altercation. Be...
The German health care system is under strain due to a shortage of skilled workers. Estimates project a lack of 1.8 million health workers by 2035. Facilities for the elderly are especially facing difficulties to provide quality care due to human resource constraints. Advocacy groups describe this as a “self-made crisis” that has arisen due...
Earlier this week, on 26th July 2023, the WHO Expert panel published updated Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc). When the excitement of the promise to (further) reduce medicine prices and predictable supply chains in countries like mine eventually subsides, we’ll need to consider if the update ...
