This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, have become a hot topic in public health for their potential in delivering life-saving medicines, blood, or vaccines to people in remote areas.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Severe shortages of medicines and medical supplies have decimated public health care. Food is largely unavailable and unaffordable for many. Rather than keep people safe, Venezuelan police and national guardsmen…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, there were more than 109,442 cholera cases resulting in 1,708 deaths in 12 countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), according to the UN children’s agency,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dementia kills about 1.5 million people worldwide each year. This figure may not surprise Americans, where the problems of Alzheimer’s and dementia are (rightly) getting a lot of attention, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the International Food Information Council (IFIC), in 2016, 38 percent of consumers named “chemicals” as their top food safety concern, up from 9 percent just five years earlier. This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, the HistPhil blog put up a post by Tamara Mann Tweel about a now-published report we commissioned her to work on, regarding the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the world’s elite gathered atop the snowy mountains of Davos, health ministers and other stakeholders spent a week in Geneva, hammering out the details of a number of global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In today’s world, the large majority of countries can actually afford to provide universal health coverage and universal access to quality education. It’s less a question of economics than of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enthusiasm for remote patient monitoring is growing, and it’s no wonder. The latest wave in health data collection uses non-invasive devices (think smart watches, smart phones, and other wearables) to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World Health Organization member states agree on the importance of access to medicines to achieve universal health coverage, but at the recently concluded 142nd session of WHO’s executive board, it was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Achieving gender equality requires bold action from strong leaders, and we have seen such leadership in 2017 from Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his first six months as director-general of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations has come out with updated guidance to encourage education ministers, especially in developing countries, to invest further in comprehensive sexuality education for young people, offering advice on…