The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has a podcast channel called ECDC on air. With the support of industry specialists in the healthcare sector, the channel focuses on communicating about emerging threats to human health in the EU. On September 29, they aired an episode in which the topic of community engagement in heal...

Today, November 25th, is the first of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. This UN-led campaign ends on December 10th, Human Rights Day, thereby aptly reminding us that violence against women and girls is part and parcel of brutal disrespect for human dignity in general. Now, most of you might wonder why a yearly campaign for activ...

It’s no doubt not the only one in these dire times of ours, but Myanmar is a prime example of a country that had to confront dual stressors, Covid-19 and “political conflict” (understatement), in recent months. To make matters worse, its population faces numerous obstacles to receiving essential mental health services. Indeed, the mental d...

I am, of course, referring to the People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice that convened on Sunday 7th November, and which can be viewed on YouTube in both English and Spanish. Unlike other events on health held over the mid weekend of COP26, this hearing was conceived primarily as a platform for people from around the wor...

Being a woman in her mid-twenties I have noticed that my social media feeds have been taken over by photos of impossibly cute babies of friends who are radiating joy and a newfound purpose and making me wish to have one of my own.  However, every now or then, I hear a different story. A story of mistreatment, humiliation, abuse, violation, and d...

When you see pictures of our world leaders, for example at COP 26 in Glasgow, you might think otherwise, but people born in the last 40 years are the largest portion of the world’s population. Although obviously generations are always diverse (and so it’s tricky to talk of distinct ‘generations’), many of them do share particular generat...

Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) marked its 10-year anniversary in 2020. That’s to say, 10 years and 7 cohorts of Emerging Voices, or about 300 EVs as we like to call ourselves. The EV2020 venture has been nothing short of anniversary dreams… and just a bit of drama: a global pandemic, virtual networking/conferencing, and a change in ...

As infections surge again, and countries across the world face wave after wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination is being touted as the most effective way of reducingboth deathsand hospitalizations. For good reason. Yet, in spite of efforts by governments to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and uptake and in so doing, improve vacci...

“I think (others do not think, or do not think properly), therefore I am (others are-not, lack being, should not exist or are dispensable) “ (Maldonado-Torres’ critique of French philosopher René Descartes, 2007:252) This well-known quote from Descartes personifies some of the ways that have framed and informed our approaches to global h...