Debates in global health research have long called for a move away from semi-colonial approaches to research, which primarily serve the interests of populations in high income countries to more […]
Spain has the dubious honour of being the country with the highest number of covid-19 cases among healthcare workers. In Spain, at the time of writing, approximately 50,000 healthcare professionals […]
A single coronavirus weighs less than one attogram (which is 10 to the power minus 18 grams). If 50-70 billion coronaviruses are needed to make a human sick, then we’re […]
A lack of clarity and collaboration has hampered final year medical students seeking to help with the US’s response to covid-19, says Keerthi Gondy […]
Those working in the health and care system especially need to tell their stories […]
A South Asian perspective on the failures of global and national public health policies South Asia, home to around a quarter of the world’s population and 40% of the world’s […]
It is only a matter of time before covid-19 gains a foothold among refugees, internally displaced persons, and other vulnerable populations living in humanitarian settings. As humanitarian organisations mobilise to […]
13 million health professionals from 90 countries have written this week to the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies, calling for an economic recovery from covid-19 that prioritises human […]
The massive consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are apparent in many regions with overburdened healthcare systems, including substantial increases in all-cause mortality, psychosocial, and economic consequences. [1] In the same way […]
For years we have been teaching our students how proud they should be to become doctors in our country—Italy—where equity is a constitutive value, and where health is guaranteed by […]
