Two years ago health ministers in the Czech Republic decided to focus on the financial sustainability of health systems during their six months at the EU presidency helm. Was this […]
Tessa Richards
Tessa Richards: Do you have a global partner?
How far does your interest in global health stretch? Far enough to have forged a link between your hospital or practice and a similar one in a low income country? […]
Tessa Richards: Everyone’s smiling in Washington
In Washington’s elegant Union station Barack Obama’s face shines out from the newspaper stacks and the shops in the concourse are bristling with OB merchandise. I pass on the fridge […]
Tessa Richards: Postoperative posting
Sarah Palin may have raised the profile of female politicians, but I’m lifting my glass to the girls who saw me through surgery last week. I did spot the odd […]
Tessa Richards: WHO in Tallinn
Start with Handel’s Alleluia chorus, include a fireworks display, lay on a dinner hosted by government, during which the director general of the WHO makes a cabaret style eulogy. Add […]
Tessa Richards at the Global Forum for Health Research, Beijing 29 Oct-2 Nov
” I believe that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP, but by the condition of its worst off. ” Zygmunt Bauman Equitable access to health […]
Tessa Richards at the European Health Forum Gastein, 3-6 October
By 0900 on the 3 Oct the hills of the picturesque Gastein valley in Austria were alive with the sound of some 600 politicians, policy makers, academics, industry leaders, and […]
Tessa Richards at the World Demographic Association’s 3rd “World Ageing and Generations Congress,” September 6-9
“The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball the further I am rolled the more I gain” Susan […]