Over the past decade, India’s drug exports have doubled to over $24 billion per year. While its long-established and rapidly growing generics industry has earned the country the accolade of ‘pharmacy of the world’, Indian companies are now also running clinical trials and developing new innovative products, including one of the world’s first nasal […]
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When I started practicing as an internal medicine physician years ago, I had many thoughts about what my future in patient care might hold. I can confidently say that flying to Egypt for the international climate conference COP27 was not one of them! And yet, mid-career, I found myself in Sharm El-Sheikh, encountering images […]
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The One Love armband, which includes a heart containing colours representative of all backgrounds, was proposed by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Working Group in 2020 in support of inclusion of people from diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions, including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+). […]
Building a social movement for oral health
In 2020, when my dental colleagues and I organized the first oral health advocacy walk in our rural community in Ekiti State, Nigeria, people asked us questions on the streets. The most common was around why we were focusing on this issue at all. In my nine years as a dentist, I have seen […]
Bridging the global health divide: reflections of scholars in the global south
The agenda to decolonize global health has gained prominence internationally as a movement against the systematic dominance of former colonizing nations in research, policy and practice. A balanced composition of member representatives from different world bank regions seeks to address growing inequalities between nations. Scholarship programs have done a tremendous job harnessing resources for […]
India’s rapid urbanization demands healthy urban planning: an opportunity to revive the WHO healthy cities approach?
India has been transitioning from rural to quasi-urban due to rapid urbanization over the last two decades and is expected to continue in the coming years. It is estimated that 43.2% of India’s population, i.e., 675 million people, will reside in Urban conglomerates by 2035 (UN-Habitat 2022). While urbanization has provided economic growth and […]
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No visa, No worries! Making global health conferences accessible for all
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