The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) in 2015 marked a shift in the global development agenda from the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era. SDGs are particularly important for […]
Global health
Grania Brigden: Why tuberculosis is a research and development priority
TB is one of the world’s biggest killers and drug resistant cases are on the rise. Now more than ever we need to prioritise its funding, says Grania Brigden […]
Abraar Karan: Revisiting health as a human right—does everyone have the right to be healthy?
Is health a human right? This question has been a point of global contention, and in particular has driven the highly partisan ideological views on health reform in the United […]
Sonia Adesara: Women’s reproductive rights must be protected
The political upheavals of 2016 pose a serious threat to the progress we have made in improving women’s health and reproductive rights […]
Naomi Hossain: The right to food is common sense in Bangladesh
Horrifying new reports of famine on a vast scale in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria are emerging, signalling the lack of a real right to food among tens of […]
Richard Smith: Why has Bangladesh done so well?
How has Bangladesh been so successful in achieving MDGs and good health outcomes? Richard Smith discusses. […]
Nick Hopkinson: Why an academic boycott of Trump’s America is misguided
How should a European clinical academic react to the fact that the US election appears to have sent a racist, misogynist, climate change denier to the White House? One response, […]
Seeing human lives in spreadsheets: The work of Hans Rosling (1948–2017)
Hans Rosling died last Tuesday (7 February 2017) at the age of 68, as the Gapminder Foundation—which he co-founded—announced. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and the many of […]
Danielle Solomon: The global gag rule is only one of many barriers to contraceptive access
The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency was bookended by two definitive and controversial actions. The first, on 23 January, was the reinstatement and expansion of the “Mexico City policy”—a […]
Chris Simms: Trump and the role of data driven resistance in global health
“Resistance” is an evocative term common to the natural and social sciences where it denotes the act of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. In the so called hard sciences it is […]