The look of surprise, bordering on cynical incredulity, was still there on the face of my fellow Nigerian “emerging voice” as our Chinese counterpart finished up his presentation introducing the […]
Global health
Radhika Arora et al: Challenges and opportunities for female health systems researchers
Juggling personal and professional lives in search of the perfect balance is an art that women and men across the world, in different spheres of work, are familiar with. How […]
Is abortion worldwide becoming more restrictive?
In her feature on bmj.com, Sophie Arie has tried to answer the question, “Is abortion worldwide becoming more restrictive?” The answer, as expected, depends on what you’re looking at, and […]
Lifebox Q and A: Rwanda—unmet surgical need and a surgical safety crisis.
Just 3.5% of the 234 million major operations taking place each year are in low-resource settings, often carried out in very dangerous conditions due to lack of resources and training. […]
Rakhal Gaitonde et al: The mortar that holds the BRICS together
We are young researchers from Brazil, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). Given our collective experience as citizens and researchers in these countries, and deeper understanding gathered during our three […]
Julian Sheather: Taxing the fat
To the evident frustration of the Danish Medical Association, Denmark has repealed the world’s first tax on saturated fats. The climb-down came after just over a year, the government citing […]
George Alleyne: Global health challenges and opportunities
The standard approach to defining the global health challenges is to use some formulation of Abdel Omran’s epidemiological transition or what is known also as the health transition and show […]
Qian Li, Raoul Bermejo III, Kopano Mabaso: Young researcher’s perspectives on health systems research
Qian Li, West China Centre for Rural Health Research & Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. While we young researchers come from diverse backgrounds and careers, we share a common […]
Robin Gorna: Is an HIV free generation an achievable aim?
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and this year all the talk is of tipping points and “ending AIDS.” On both sides of the Atlantic lobby groups are calling on their […]
Gabriel Scally: Sweet black angel
Back in my early days as a radical medical student (a small, select group in the Belfast of the early 1970s) one of the international figures I admired greatly was […]