Tag: health systems

Guest Editorial: The World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research

by globalhealth on Jun 8, 2017 in Education, Health Workforce/HRH, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, News, Policy, Reports & Publications

Professor Ruairí Brugha, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Board member of the IFGH, has written a … Continue reading "Guest Editorial: The World Report on Health Policy and Systems...

Protecting the Environment for Future Generations

by globalhealth on Sep 28, 2015 in Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, News, Past Events, Policy, Resources

Photo of a man diving into the Ganga river was taken by Sudipto Das, WHO (2007) September 26th is World Environmental Health Day, and this year the theme is protecting … Continue reading "Protecting the Environment for Future...

Engaging Health Systems by Improving Access to Health Information

by globalhealth on Aug 6, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events, Student Outreach Group

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Sanskriti Sasikumar Artwork by Charles Isabirye for Partnerships in Health Information. Retrieved from: http://www.phiinafrica.org/ Knowledge empowers individuals to make informed choices. However, in our search for … Continue reading "Engaging Health Systems by Improving...

From We to One: Trans-disciplinary approaches to transform Global Health

by globalhealth on Jun 5, 2015 in Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Policy, Research

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist & Editor: Bianca van Bavel Globally, most emerging diseases and persisting infections are zoonoses transmitted from animals to humans. Their origins are associated … Continue reading "From We to One: Trans-disciplinary approaches to transform Global...

Understanding the dilemma of access to medicines requires more than shifting the blame of affordability

by globalhealth on Mar 2, 2015 in Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, Policy

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Sanskriti Sasikumar A patient being treated for MDR-TB by MSF in India holds his daily medications (Sami Silva; MSF 2014) Pharmaceutical companies are cold-hearted, profiteering misanthropes that … Continue reading "Understanding the dilemma of access to medicines...

Resolving the Contradictions of Growth and Capabilities: A rights-based approach to health

by globalhealth on Feb 16, 2015 in Education, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Irish News and Feeds, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News, News, Past Events, Policy, Research, Resources

GLOBAL HEALTH WRITES Citizen Journalist: Bianca van Bavel Applying a human rights approach often calls into question a series of contradictions; particularly when it is introduced by the nation’s President … Continue reading "Resolving the Contradictions of Growth and Capabilities: A rights-based...

Is the desire for Innovation substituting the need for Evidence?

by globalhealth on Nov 24, 2014 in Education, Health Workforce/HRH, Homepage Featured, Homepage recent posts, Key Correspondent News, News

GETHealth: A Global Education & Health Technology Summit 2014 Dublin Key Correspondent: Bianca van Bavel ‘We are living in an unprecedented time for technology and innovation ’, was a statement … Continue reading "Is the desire for Innovation substituting the need for...

Why the future of global health lies in health partnerships

by globalhealth on Nov 17, 2014 in IFGH 2014 Conference, Key Correspondent Articles, Key Correspondent News

By Sanskriti Sasikumar, Key Correspondent for the Irish Forum for Global Health IFGH Conference 2014 Opinion Editorial Global health has witnessed an increasing popularity in recent years. Although we seem to … Continue reading "Why the future of global health lies in health...