Tag: Global Health

Ending the Permanent Respiratory Disease Pandemic (Leith Greenslade, Project-Syndicate)

COVID-19 has exposed the limited ability of health systems around the world to cope with a pandemic of respiratory infection. With the official death count from...

The Economy that Planetary Health Requires (Renzo Guinto, Project-Syndicate)

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts and pundits spun visions of how the crisis would reshape the global economy. Many heralded the opportunity...

Global Health. Noncommunicable Diseases Kill Slowly in Normal Times and Quickly in COVID-19 Times (Thomas J. Bollyky, Serena Tohme, Samantha Kiernan, CFR)

Ten years ago, Captain America and The Hangover Part II were kings of the summer movie box office, Occupy Wall Street protestors were flooding into Zuccotti Park in lower...

Global Health – How can the world end viral hepatitis by 2030? 5 experts explain (WEF)

Matthew Oliver writes: More than 1.1 million people die from hepatitis B and C every year. An estimated 296 million people worldwide are living with hepatitis B, but...

Global Health – Send vaccines where people want them: developing nations (Yale News, WEF)

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak writes: In the United States, where COVID-19 vaccines are plentiful, the biggest remaining obstacle to protecting the population is vaccine hesitancy....

Global Health – Bridging Health’s Racial Divide (Project-Syndicate)

JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE, WAYNE C. KOFF write for Project-Syndicate: The world is poised to make transformative advances in disease prevention and control over the coming decades....

Global Health – Primary health care needs to be fit for the post COVID world – how do we do that? (Muhammad Ali Pate,...

As a physician, I know firsthand the important role that primary health care plays in the health of individuals, families, and communities. When it...

Global Health – Humans may have suffered a large coronavirus outbreak before Covid. Here’s what our DNA can tell us (Yassine Souilmi, Ray Tobler,...

A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. New research has found evidence of genetic adaptation to the...

Global Health/Future of Food/SGD03 – Food meets health: How a new approach to metabolic health could tackle chronic disease (Sir Mohammad Jaafar, WEF)

Chronic disease driven by processed food provided the backdrop for COVID-19 to spiral out of control. Fundamental and structural changes are needed in...

Global Health/Ageing – Bye, bye, baby? Birthrates are declining globally – here’s why it matters (Darrell Bricker, WEF)

Birthrates are falling globally. In many countries, COVID-19 has suppressed population growth by causing a decline in births, migration and life expectancy. Even...

Global Health/Climate Change/G7 – The challenge for G7 leaders: vaccinate the world and be bolder on climate (Paul Polman, WEF)

The G7 Summit will require high ambitions on vaccination and climate. Image: REUTERS As G7 leaders meet, the costs of not acting on public health,...

Vaccines – How to Build Trust in Vaccines: Understanding the drivers of vaccine confidence (WEF)

Low vaccine confidence is one of the world's most pressing public health problems. While it has been a challenge since the first vaccines were...

Global Health – Invest in nurses to fight the pandemic, rebuild shattered health (Al Jazeera)

Sheila Tlou, Barbara Stilwell The world may face a severe shortage of nurses in the aftermath of the pandemic if it does not take action. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/24/invest-in-nurses-to-fight-the-pandemic-rebuild-shattered-health

The cells in our body have ‘a license to die’, protecting us from infectious diseases (WEF)

Georgia Atkin-Smith, Ivan Poon When we contract diseases such as the flu, our cells can die to stop pathogens in their tracks before they spread...

(Global Health) Diagnostics for Better Health: Considerations for Global Implementation (WEF)

Diagnostics are essential to the healthcare system. They are the cornerstone of precision medicine, enabling the customization of medical decisions and treatments. They predict...

(Global Health) One Year Later: Global Health Lessons From 2020 (CFR)

Speakers Thomas J. Bollyky Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development, and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations; Codirector, CFR Independent Task...