Listening and engaging with the public in building and sustaining vaccine confidence will be crucial, argues Pauline Paterson It was promising to hear that preliminary results from one of the […]
Month: November 2020
Alison Leary: Why won’t workforce policy makers tackle gender inequality in healthcare?
Leaving gender and gender inequality out of the strategic plan for the NHS workforce is seriously misjudged, says Alison Leary […]
Better data are crucial for mitigating threats in the Middle East
Conflict and migration may compound harms from climate sensitive infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region. Shlomit Paz, Azeem Majeed, and George K Christophides suggest routes to […]
Malaria, mangroves, and migration: challenges for small island developing states in the Caribbean
Besides climate change and unsustainable exploitation of the environment, socioeconomic inequality and political unrest may also contribute to infectious disease outbreaks in the Caribbean archipelago. Migration among rural coastal communities […]
Nick Hopkinson: Tobacco industry collaborators sending equality up in smoke
It is widely believed that the American humourist and mathematician Tom Lehrer abandoned comedy because Henry Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Cambodia. A bold new entry […]
Richard Smith: Doctors—beware the curse of optimism
Breakthroughs announced in the media are rarely breakthroughs. Disasters rarely prove as disastrous as when first splashed in the media. I kept both these Kipling-esque thoughts in mind when nearly […]
Pharma companies must open their books on the funding agreements for covid-19 vaccines
Transparency will be important for affordable access to any covid-19 vaccine and it is the responsibility of governments to ensure both, say Manuel Martin and Isabelle Jani-Friend […]
Ladies and gentlemen, there will now be a long interval—theatre in the covid-19 era
The performing arts have an important role in the cultural life of the UK, as well as contributing to our health and wellbeing. Harry Brunjes looks at what it’s been […]
Andy Cowper: Hope of a covid-19 vaccine is good news, but comes with many uncertainties
The announcement on Monday of a covid-19 vaccine candidate feels as if it has changed the game in dealing with covid-19. According to a press release of the Phase III study, […]
We must stop being polite about Test and Trace—there comes a point where it becomes culpable
Test and Trace is a disaster and doctors should voice outrage, not remain silent, argue these authors […]