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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
At the time of writing this article, more than 4 million people globally have fallen prey to the novel Corona virus, with over 248 thousand deaths, and the end is not in sight. According to the latest WHO situation report (as of May 11), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has entered the community transmission phase of the pandemic with 18, 198 conf...
The Community Health Worker Common Indicators Project How should community health worker (CHW) programs be evaluated? A collaborative team recently published an important article advancing an answer to this pressing question, focused on CHW programs in low- and middle-income countries. Here, we provide a complementary answer to this question, ...
The climate change and Covid-19 space has been abuzz with the narrative of ‘Nature is Healing’ centred around the drastic decrease in air pollution across hotspots in China, India, Europe, and the United States. The positive impacts seem to be cascading through articles with fake news of dolphins returning to the Venetian Lagoon, people in S...
On May 4, some of the world’s major global-health actors and political powers joined forces and pledged close to $8 billion (€7.5 billion), within a few hours, to accelerate the development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. The Coronavirus Global Response pledging conference came on the hee...
In the third week of November 2019, experts in health security from 29 Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies gathered. Their task was to use a 49-indicator tool of the World Health Organisation to access Nigeria’s capacity to detect, prevent or respond to a disease outbreak—in effect, whether the country was prepared to handle one. P...
The COVID-19 pandemic has jeopardised solidarity globally. Even if there have also been encouraging signs, communities such as the European Union, the African Union (and its regional economic communities), and the ASEAN region have all experienced problems with solidarity in this time of crisis. There is widespread fear that Africa will harbour ...
A few years back, walking through the narrow trail at Mar Elias Camp, I wasn’t able to process the telltale signs. Today, crouching under the looming entangled electrical wires and jumping across dirtied waterbeds snaking around makeshift houses, I understand the importance of rethinking health initiatives put forth in my country, Lebanon. This ...
Ten days ago, a friend rang to ask me whether it would be reasonable to start a cottage-industry sewing cotton facemasks. Thomas lives in Daliganj, Lucknow, a densely populated urban community where families live in single brick rooms. He thought facemasks could both protect people from coronavirus and generate income for families struggling in ...
(French & Portuguese versions of this statement below) The West African Network of Emerging Leaders in Health Policy and Systems (WANEL) is West Africa’s first network of emerging researchers and practitioners in health policy and systems, working to support stronger and resilient health systems in the ECOWAS sub-region. WANEL facilitates peer...
