The UN’s declaration on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was signed by every member of the United Nations General Assembly. Unfortunately, not all member states have the necessary infrastructure to ensure action is […]
Global health
Behrooz Astaneh: Iran’s scientific community shouldn’t be put in the shade
A recent news report published in Science ran with the alarming headline: “A shady market in scientific papers mars Iran’s rise in science.” The story reports that some Iranian scholars […]
Peter Grabitz et al: How can we improve data sharing in public health emergencies?
At the recent World Health Summit in Berlin there was a workshop discussing the case of data sharing in Public Health Emergencies” organized by the Centre Virchow-Villermé. About two years […]
Sian M Griffiths: How to implement handwashing with soap in schools
11 March 2016 was an important day for global public health. It was the day the UN adopted a hygiene indicator as part of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6–the goal […]
After Hurricane Matthew: The fight to prevent a cholera epidemic in Haiti
Cholera has been in Haiti since shortly after the earthquake in 2010. Before Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti this month, it was predicted there would be 50 000 cases by the end […]
Lara Fairall: Where there are nurses and community health workers
August marked the fourth anniversary of the shootings at the Marikana mine in North West Province of South Africa. It’s one of those events that so etches itself onto our […]
Jeph Mathias: The human face of inequality
Long ago an MSF (Doctors Without Borders) poster transfixed one junior doctor. Me. It was black and white. Two figures, photographed from behind, dominate the foreground: a poor black child, […]
Canada’s new government: Climate change, “regulatory capture,” and “cathedral thinking”
It’s a year this month since Justin Trudeau was elected as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister, ending a decade of conservative rule under Stephen Harper. By most accounts he has set […]
Claudia Stein: Europe is embracing the burden of disease approach
As readers of The BMJ, there’s a good chance you are familiar with the burden of disease (BoD) approach. BoD is a systematic scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude […]
Christopher Stokes: One year after Kunduz
Battlefields without doctors, in wars without limits Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is remembering one of the darkest moments in its history. On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes killed 42 people […]