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Rethinking clinical outcome markers in multimorbidity

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 ...
13 Jan
Global HealthIndigenous People
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ICPD 25: accelerating the promise or just holding ground?

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 ...
16 Dec
Global HealthJournal
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Genomic studies in Africa: an opportunity to leverage existing observational data for causal inference

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 ...
04 Dec
GeneticsGlobal Health
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Most genetic studies use only white participants – this will lead to greater health inequality

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 ...
02 Dec
GeneticsGlobal Health
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RxScanner™: Making medicines safe globally

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 ...
11 Nov
Global HealthTechnological advances
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Towards “UHC 2.0”: new models for sustaining population health

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 ...
17 Oct
Global HealthInfectious DiseasesNon-communicable DiseasesTechnological advances
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Bringing biodiversity and health priorities back together: where policy should follow practice

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 ...
23 Sep
Global Health
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Critical role of pharmacies in rapidly growing antimicrobial resistance

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 ...
26 Aug
Global HealthInfectious Diseases
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Short-term engagements in global health – towards outcomes-based thinking


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 ...
29 Jul
Capacity BuildingGlobal Health
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A global code to counter ethics dumping in international research

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 ...
27 Jun
GeneticsGlobal HealthIndigenous People
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Recent Posts

  • Rethinking clinical outcome markers in multimorbidity
  • ICPD 25: accelerating the promise or just holding ground?
  • Genomic studies in Africa: an opportunity to leverage existing observational data for causal inference
  • Most genetic studies use only white participants – this will lead to greater health inequality
  • RxScanner™: Making medicines safe globally

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