From late March to late August I worked in two Greek camps for refugees as part of a joint Spanish-French Red Cross deployment to support the Hellenic Red Cross. Providing […]
Global health
Chris Simms: Path dependency—Trump, Brexit, and the future Europe
Barbara Tuchman begins her seminal work The March of Folly by observing that a “phenomenon noticeable through history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies […]
Planning a network for randomised trials in global surgery
Surgery has been called the “neglected stepchild” of global health. Of the surgical research that is done, virtually none of it is relevant to patients and surgeons in resource limited […]
Richard Smith: Working to make cholera a disease of the past
Until last year the Cholera Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, could have a thousand admissions a day before and after the monsoon. On a calm day now it still has hundreds. […]
Dot Sang: This is what success in the Calais camp looks like
The Calais Jungle is now all but rubble and mud. More than 10,000 refugees who inhabited the camp are dispersed across France. Many of them will be embarking on their […]
Aeesha NJ Malik: Integrating child health in Tanzania—where is the vision?
I first set foot in Tanzania 20 years ago as a medical student. Rather ambitiously at the time, I came with the intention of conducting an evaluation in Tanzania and […]
Stuart Brown: Antimicrobial resistance—a local, national, and global threat
I have presented at many events on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and come across difficult to treat infections in my own practice, but I had never seen an untreatable infection. That […]
Showing solidarity with health professionals everywhere on the need for water, sanitation, and hygiene
Delia Jepson and Cheryl Stanley, midwives, Liverpool Women’s Hospital We started this year by travelling to rural Tanzania with WaterAid to experience what daily life is like for the committed […]
Seema Biswas: Conflict is a global health challenge
“The first principle of health is life. War is a direct threat to life. For millions of people worldwide, surviving war is the predominant objective in their daily existence. Ending […]
Visa headaches and inequalities in attending global health conferences
Faraz Khalid, Sara Ardila-Gómez, and Kerry Scott Enthusiastic preparations are underway for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which is to be held in Vancouver on 14-18 November […]