More people die from a lack of surgical care than from HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Half of the world’s population face catastrophic financial expenditure due to surgery. With over […]
Global health
The sustainable development goals: Priorities for the global health community?
As the 2015 deadline for the attainment of the millennium development goals (MDGs) approaches, a UN working group has released a draft proposal for their successors. Among the health related […]
Ian Barker: Why we should all move to an opt-out system for organ donation
On 1 December 2015, Wales will be the first country in the UK to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation. This means that patients will need to actively opt […]
Tamzin Furtado: What Global Health Trials has taught us about research capacity building
Recently the research community, Global Health Trials, celebrated its fifth anniversary. In five years, Global Health Trials has evolved dramatically as the needs of its audience emerged, and today we reflect […]
Aser García Rada: Migrant access to healthcare in Spain
After two and a half years, Mariano Rajoy´s conservative People´s Party (PP) government in Spain has partially amended their irrational decision to exclude undocumented migrants and other groups from public […]
Chris Simms: Canada’s murdered and missing aboriginals
How would you know and what would it matter if the invisible disappeared? The self-described “invisible” are Canada’s aboriginal women, and the “disappeared” are the 1189 aboriginal women and girls […]
Violet Shivutse: A seat at the table for caregivers in Kenya
A new report from UN Women, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, calls for radical reforms to the global policy agenda thinking which will transform economies […]
Paul Auerbach: The Nepal Ambulance Service
With the help of Rebecca Walker, a faculty member within the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford and a very active participant in Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI), I am writing […]
David Oliver: Minding our language around care for older people and why it matters
I love to plough through the newspapers, with radio or TV news on in the background. My enjoyment can be punctured by annoyances. Recurring candidates for this personal “room 101” […]
Paul Auerbach on the public health needs in Nepal
I am on my way back to the US now, and getting information from people who are in Nepal. Because I am inundated with requests to provide information from people […]