Over the past few months it would be very difficult to have missed the news stories reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis. Civil war has now continued in the country for […]
Global health
Global Health Curriculum group: A changing world and what it means for medical training
This month the BMA released a report on the need for pre and post-graduate medical education and training to adapt in the face of a rapidly “changing world.” We are pleased […]
Sarah Walpole: Rain in the desert—a public health emergency that you might not have heard about
You might not have heard about the humanitarian emergency that began to unravel in Western Sahara last week. The Saharawi people live in exile in one of the world’s harshest […]
Richard Smith: Health research when carbon matters more than money
As I write this, the strongest hurricane ever detected in the Western Hemisphere is approaching the coast of Mexico, where my son lives. It may have nothing to do with […]
Alexandra Caulfield: Mental health in Africa—challenges and progress since 2008
Poor provision “We have 77 psychiatrists, most of them in Nairobi. Quite a big chunk of them are doing private practice and only for those people who can afford their […]
David Kerr: Don’t move fast and break things
New technology companies need the oxygen of someone else’s money to survive and grow, that’s how capitalism works. Here in California, multi-million dollar investments and eye-watering billion dollar company valuations […]
Mihail Călin: The impact of the refugee crisis on European health systems
This year, those participants at the European Health Forum Gastein who were not too busy moving from one session to another, too eager to rub shoulders with top level speakers, […]
Richard Hurley: Meeting the Syrian refugees arriving on a small Greek island
On Tuesday 13 October, while on holiday off the beaten track on the tiny Greek island of Amorgos, I heard that a boat of refugees had landed for the fourth time this […]
Roger Kneebone and Sally Frampton: Looking back through the keyhole
A surgical generation has passed since the introduction of keyhole surgery in the late 1980s. In that time the landscape of surgery has changed beyond recognition. In less than three […]
Richard Smith: How global health can help the NHS
Africa has 25% of the global health burden and 2% of the health workforce. In contrast, North America has 2% of the health burden but 25% of the health workforce. […]