Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor (rmacdonald@gmail.com). COI: RM is the honorary executive director of MCAI As more news about the devastating floods…
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General Pakistan floods: medical coordination is essential
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General Making drug and device regulation more transparent — FDA invites public comment on proposals
As part of its longstanding efforts towards providing greater accountability, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a set…
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General Mother-to-child HIV transmission – stigma barrier to progress
Guest blog by Ditte A. Søndergaard1, Simone C. Hald1,3, Jeffrey V. Lazarus2,3 1 Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2…
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General MSF: Access to medicines must be preserved and improved at the World Health Assembly
Guest blog by Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland…
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Conference news The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity: A Global Call for Action
The 3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health concluded today with the release of The Toronto Charter on Physical Activity…
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Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data Initiative
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. The World Bank announced this week…
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Public Is a megaphone drowning out the most effective way to quit smoking?
Earlier this week NPR ran an item about how anti-smoking efforts have evolved over the decades. Since 1984 when the first nicotine…
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General My 12 Minutes Speaking in the House of Commons
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, San Francisco Lead, Evidence to Policy initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. PLoS…
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Global Health Climate and health – reporting from Copenhagen
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden As a health researcher, naturally I’ve been looking…
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Global Health COP15, 2 days in: a health researchers perspective
Guest blog by Stig Wall, Professor of Epidemiology, Umeå University and Editor of Global Health Action Two days have passed at the…
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Global Health On the way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden. Along with many others around the world, some…
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General A billion living in hunger: governments must rise to the challenge
The third UN World Food Summit assembles this week. But despite the fact that more than one billion people go hungry every…