Last year, I worked on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where I had the privilege of providing medical care to members of the Oglala Lakota Tribe. The people there were culturally ...
Last month in Nairobi, 9,500 delegates from government and civil society convened in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). In 1994, the ...
Efforts to increase the inclusion of African populations in genomic studies are beginning to take shape, mainly in recognition of the importance of African populations to our understanding of human ...
First published in The Conversation. Few areas of science have seen such a dramatic development in the last decade as genomics. It is now possible to read the genomes ...
According to the WHO and Interpol, over one million people die annually from counterfeit medicines. Such medicines have a serious impact on population health, including treatment failure, toxicity, and contribution to antimicrobial ...
Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
We seem to have finally arrived in that space in policy making where we are pausing to recalibrate our planning processes, from sectoral planning (where sectors are considered separately) to ...
Walking into the out-patients’ department of Patan Hospital in Nepal recently, I saw the mother of a child enrolled into an enteric fever clinical trial a few years ago. She ...
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 ...
Clinical studies in high income settings can struggle to recruit the target number of participants but for people in low income settings, enrolment in a clinical study may provide the ...