Dr Tedros set out his priorities on SDGs […]
Global health
Yogesh Jain: Lean diabetes in rural poor populations—management of this subset of patients needs rethinking
In the impoverished community in rural central India where my colleagues and I run a comprehensive primary health care programme, half of the population live below the poverty line [spend […]
Taher Qassim: Yemenis are being left to rot in a forgotten war
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is raging in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises […]
Baines and Babar: Why medical practitioners should be interested in the World Bank
A new series looks at the World Bank’s expanding role in global health […]
Chris Simms: Confederates and Canadian colonialists—imprisoned by the past
It may be easier to topple monuments and memorials than erase the memories they evoke or the policies that sustain them. Canada’s experience is not the Confederates’ in Charlottesville, yet […]
A good start for WHO: but the new DG election process needs an independent monitoring body
Ilona Kickbusch, Gian Luca Burci, Austin Liu A new election process After a “rollercoaster” year the World Health Organization (WHO) elected its ninth Director General (DG) in May 2017. The […]
Altaf Hussain and David Jenkins: Pellet gun injuries in Kashmir
The nature of civil conflicts and wars is changing, with civilian deaths far exceeding the number of military fatalities. [1] The effect of weapons on civilians is widespread in ways […]
Manuj C Weerasinghe and Sinha De Silva: It’s time to review strategies for dengue in Sri Lanka
Dengue fever was first detected in Sri Lanka in 1962. Although cases were initially sporadic, dengue has reached epidemic proportions during the past 15 years. Dengue fever used to show […]
Richard Smith: The rotavirus story—countering the commonest cause of diarrhoea
“I’m not talking to you about Ebola or Zika virus but about a virus that everyone in this room has had and everyone of your children and probably all children […]
Peter Taylor: Health, SDGs, and public policy—the role of policy research institutions
The start of a journey In January 2016, shortly after 194 countries signed on to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and an ambitious, universal, and transformational vision for global development, […]