The growing popularity of short-term engagements in global health (STEGH) highlights why global health and development efforts must begin to refocus their planning around outcomes rather than interventions. STEGH typically ...
Effective delivery of health services in rural areas remains challenging in most low- and middle-income countries (1). This includes rural India, where acute shortages of medical health professionals persist across ...
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more people die of cancer than malaria or tuberculosis each year.(1) The World Health Organization estimates that cancer deaths in the region will increase by 85% ...
Of the 1.1 billion people in the world who do not have a formal identity, 40% are children under the age of 18 and 78% are located in underdeveloped areas ...
Getting research published is a major milestone in a researcher’s career, but it often comes at the end of a journey fraught with challenges. In many low and middle income ...
Generation of digital data has expanded exponentially over the last decade, inspiring visions of data-driven healthcare and precision medicine. But the promise of big data is tempered by today’s reality ...
The concept of seed funding emerged from the world of investment finance, where investors commit an initial early-stage stake (seed) of funding to support the development of new concepts, products ...
The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium is an initiative of the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the National Institutes of Health (USA), in partnership with the African Society ...
With changing patterns of diseases in Africa, it is increasingly important to train young scientists in order to build research capacity across the continent. Research training is fundamental to enabling ...
The Wellcome Trust advanced course, Genetic Epidemiology in Africa, which was established by research scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute including Dr Manjinder Sandhu, Editor-in-Chief of GHEG, recently took ...