Everyone’s been missing a trick. The whole debate on sharing clinical study data has focused on transparency, reproducibility, and completing the evidence base for treatments. Yet public health emergencies such […]
Global health
Georg Röggla: Refugees and civil society
The migration crisis has reached Central Europe. About 10 000 migrants arrived in Vienna within a few hours on Saturday, most of them on their way to Germany. The situation […]
Charles Gore: Making the elimination of viral hepatitis a reality
Currently 400 million people worldwide are living with either hepatitis B or hepatitis C, with no country being left unaffected. For far too long we have allowed 1.4 million people to […]
Simon Nicholas Williams: Big Food could take the fizz out of Jamie Oliver’s soft drink tax
In his new documentary, Sugar Rush [airing tonight], Jamie Oliver pledges to “be a pain in the arse to the government” on the issue of soft drink taxes. Unfortunately for […]
Anant Bhan: The Call to Action Summit 2015—thoughts on some key areas for discussion and action
India is hosting the Call to Action Summit on the 27-28 August in New Delhi. The summit is focused on ending preventable child and maternal deaths, and will be co-hosted […]
Lara Gautier: August 2015—a paroxysm of environmental health incidents caused by industrial activity
The Animas river in Colorado, the Moskva river south of Moscow, and Tianjin. What do these three geographic areas have in common? They have all been deeply affected by industrial hazards […]
Edward Fitzgerald: Celebrating global health on world humanitarian day
Lifebox Foundation is celebrating surgery and anaesthesia humanitarian heroes for WHD. Follow our #HumanitarianHeroes campaign on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to find out more. When I was 4 years old […]
Aser García Rada: Providing humanitarian aid at one of the oldest refugee camps in the world
During four weeks this June, along with other colleagues from the Spanish and the Austrian Red Cross, I was deployed as a delegate of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of […]
Joe Knight: Extreme weather and food supply shortages
It’s a given that Obama will never agree with Putin on Ukraine nor Ahmadinejad on nuclear proliferation. There are however, some common enemies that are supposed to draw the warring […]
Zosia Kmietowicz: One policy to reduce sugar intake—what would you do?
The anti-sugar crusader Robert Lustig blew through town this week to film a documentary with chef Jamie Oliver, but stopped off on the way to take part in a panel […]