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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
During the past decade, research about knowledge translation (KT) for evidence-informed policies (EIP) has increased significantly. KT, defined as “a dynamic and iterative process that includes the synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge in the process of decision-making”, is seen as the most efficient...
Frankly, it was good to be back in Berlin for the World Health Summit 2022, the ‘multistakeholder governance platform I love to hate”, especially after the gloomy Zoom years of Covid. The autumn colours of the city provided a nice backdrop for global health discussions, even if I personally didn’t enjoy the (mandatory) FFP2 masks much. Whi...
Global health awards recognize outstanding women in health From the front lines of the Ukraine war to the remotest parts of rural Ethiopia, the 17 awards given to the 2022 Heroines of Health Awardees recognised an extraordinary contribution to global health. (Read their remarkable stories in full) The awards, given out at the gala event “Lead...
The world is becoming progressively more urban. Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities and by 2050 the global urban population will add an additional 2.5 billion, it is expected. Arguably, most of the world’s urban growth has been taking place in the Global South. These countries have to (rapidly) move away from the t...
Travelling “out of India” for an in-person workshop for the first time in almost three years, I landed in Nairobi with anxiety and a ton of self-doubt on how I would engage with the participants of the Women in Global Health (WGH) Peer-to-Peer workshop (24-27th Sept). I had almost forgotten to be “in that zone”, not being an extrovert (r...
The concept of ‘social determinants’ of health is defined by the World Health Organisation as “The non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include ec...
In less than four weeks from now, three dozen Emerging Voices from all over the world will gather in Medellín, Colombia, for their final leap towards exposure. Following ten days of face-to-face coaching, they will be the next cohort (EV2022) of an established Thematic Working Group of Health Systems Global and will have their rite of passage a...
Criticality in global health cannot be thought of without questioning existing power relationships. Amidst growing global threats against health equity and the changing nature of health policy and systems research (HPSR), it is important to build critical practices in research to ensure that HPSR remains an innovative and relevant discipline tha...
On August 23rd 2022, WHO AFRO, African health ministers and partners launched a campaign to reduce the burden of Sickle Cell in the African region. The campaign was launched at the 72nd WHO Regional Committee for Africa, and aims to build political will and attract resources to bolster the sickle cell response in the region. Dr Moeti, the WHO Re...