G7 leaders made few concrete, strong, or deep health-related commitments at Carbis Bay
G7 responds to “If not us, who?” with “Not us.” So where are we now with the global health cooperation agenda, ask Kent Buse and Katri Bertram […]
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An open letter from Women in Global Health to the leaders of the G7
With the covid-19 pandemic only widening inequalities, it’s time for the G7 to lead with humility, vaccinate the world, and invest in the women who deliver health and social care, […]
Martin Marshall: Data sharing must be based on trust
NHS Digital’s General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme has received a great deal of attention and caused significant controversy over the past few weeks. After calling for […]
David Wrigley: Don’t call us resilient
Health and social care staff have held up a broken system for far too long, writes David Wrigley […]
The geopolitics of public health in a pandemic
We are more than a year on after the start of the coronavirus pandemic. We have witnessed the disproportionate impact of covid-19 in the UK, Brazil, US and other countries, […]
Why “groupthink” detracts from an explanation of the organisational failures of the UK pandemic response
The UK response to covid-19 has been beset by a series of organisational failures. Among many other things, the UK government imposed restrictions too late in March 2020 and, failing […]
Richard Hurley: Celebrating NHS staff to find sense in the sorrow
Can the arts help alleviate some of the suffering caused by the pandemic? Can theatre help us to find meaning, to begin to heal? Richard Hurley was moved by this […]
The UK must not abandon commitments to international aid during a global pandemic
This is the worst moment for the UK to turn its back on global child health, argues these authors […]
No turning back: time to end AIDS as a public health threat
The HIV epidemic has been—and continues to be—marked by deep inequities in access to prevention and treatment, writes Mandeep Dhaliwal […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Black swans in genetics
The technique called optogenetics has been in the news this week, having been used to restore, or at least partially restore, the sight of a man with retinitis pigmentosa, a […]