international health policies

Courtrooms are not the first place our minds go when thinking about venues for “routine” policy engagement in the health sector. And yet, a growing body of work suggests that courts are tied up in a vast number of threads in health policy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), in some cases building on foundational judgments in many co...

The pandemic has tinkered with our work/life balance, but despite that, work continues to play an essential role in our lives. It is, therefore, important to cultivate uplifting work environments. But how do we go about achieving that in the global health ecosystem? In this article, as two mid-career African health experts, we share our perspect...

The interdependence of people, animals and the environment is the foundation of the One Health movement. We, three Emerging Voices alumni from three different countries, were naturally on the lookout for the spirit of oneness at the 7th World One Health Congress in Singapore, from 7 to 11 November 2022. Situated at the Sands Expo and Convention ...

Global health is an area that requires cross collaboration between parties of varying expertise across different geographical locations. As such, these collaborations rely on strong collaboration between global South and global North partners. However, the majority of the in-person events, for example meetings, conferences and trainings take pla...

Less than a week has passed since the successful conclusion of the 8th edition of the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) program. This year’s EV venture (EV2022) was held in Colombia, in sync with the Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2022) in Bogota (31 Oct-4 Nov). By now, sixty people, including participants and fa...

In 2021, the World Health Organization released the Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT), revision VI, to support member states to strengthen national regulatory systems. GBT strongly supports the concept of regulatory reliance. The reliance concept is grounded in the idea that a national regulator relies on and adopts decisions taken by a regulator i...

With the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Report published in September 2022, the global health community had a chance to pause, reflect and unlearn from experiences within the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings and recommendations collated by 28 world-leading experts and over 100 contributors cited several ‘hard truths and ‘wi...

I was honoured to be among those recognized at the Heroines of Health gala hosted by Women in Global Health on the sidelines of the World Health Summit. While this award shed much-needed light on traditionally unrecognized women leaders, it also reminded us that global inequities continue to shape the face of global health. As a Togolese woman w...

The EV4GH 2022 edition is on!!! This is the first complete EV4GH edition post the mobility restrictions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 – as you might recall, a short and spectacular version of the EV4GH 2020 F2F edition was held in Dubai in 2021. After a few hectic months of preparation, distance learning, and (a fair amount of) troublesho...