This is a Guest Blog by Alison Whyte, Media Adviser at Medact, and Editor of the Medact newsletter Communique. On Saturday, the…
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General Medics March for Climate Change ActionRead more
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General Global Pulse Interviews Ellen ‘t Hoen About Patent PoolRead more
A few weeks back, I posted a blog called Diving Into the Patent Pool, which reported on a Berkeley Law School meeting…
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General International Health Electives: "A Delicate Balance"Read more
Today I had lunch with Paul Drain, physician and lead author of a new guidebook to working in global health, called “Caring…
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Access Diving into the patent poolRead more
When it comes to treating HIV in low and middle income countries (LMICs), there are two crises—the first garners much attention, but…
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General Drug Companies and Patient Groups: Uneasy BedfellowsRead more
A couple of weeks ago, I was on This American Life, a weekly show on US national public radio, talking about screening…
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General Telegraph feature on scaling up mosquito netsRead more
Over this past summer, I took a short sabbatical after being awarded a mini-fellowship in global health reporting. For my fellowship, I…
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Public Mental health in KenyaRead more
On Sept 8 2009 I blogged about Kenya’s science cafés, and on October 13 2009 I blogged about the launch of PLoS…
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General Protecting hospitals from natural disastersRead more
Today is the UN’s International Day for Disaster Reduction. This year the UN is dedicating the day to highlighting the need to…
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Mental Health Action on global mental healthRead more
Last Friday, I attended the launch of the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), a high profile event held at the London…
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Public Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?Read more
Many African countries face serious shortages of essential global health tools, such as malaria drugs and mosquito nets. Often when these shortages…
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Public Public health and social justiceRead more
Last week, I was contacted by a physician, Dr Martin Donohoe, who is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Community…
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General Can we really fix US health care?Read more
That’s the question that T.R. Reid, renowned correspondent for The Washington Post and a commentator for National Public Radio, set out to…