by ghgovernance | Dec 22, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Maternal Health, United Nations, Young Voices
By Tara Ornstein September 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark convention on women’s rights. Over the last two months, UN member states and civil society organizations have accelerated their review of the progress...
by ghgovernance | Dec 3, 2014 | Community Health, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
By Thomas Hill The field of global health has expanded rapidly over the past decade and this has led it to be increasingly linked to the field of international development policy and practice. According to a United Nations Development and human rights for all report...
by ghgovernance | May 7, 2014 | Asia, Emerging Powers, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized, Young Voices
by Raghavendra Madhu (Health Governance and Policy Practicioner) and Lalit Yadav (Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health) With the general elections 2014 in full swing in the world’s largest democracy, it is interesting to see the proposition of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 30, 2014 | Asia, Community Health, Industry, Young Voices
By Jeanifer Uwaechie, Rutgers University in New Brunswick It is no longer news that the Chinese economy has made great strides in recent years. In the past 10 years in particular, China has achieved what developed countries did in several decades or even centuries....
by ghgovernance | Feb 6, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, Health Systems, Health Technology, Young Voices
Vlad Boscor, Young Voices Blogger Globalization inevitably has its global winners and losers, and nowhere are they more apparent than in the healthcare sector. Developed countries have a huge advantage in healthcare access, modernity of treatment and diagnosis, and...
by ghgovernance | Jan 14, 2014 | Global Health Governance Blog, North America, Young Voices
Peter Maslanka, Young Voices Blogger In March 2013 the U.S. spent a staggering $463 million for 2 million new smallpox doses in defense of a potential bioterrorist attack. This new drug, Arestyvr, made by New York-based Siga Technologies, is an antiviral pill that...
by ghgovernance | Dec 10, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Laurel Stone, Young Voices Blogger In the past month, international media compiled devastating pictures from the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Humanitarian aid agencies and even the US military are scrambling to help the country stabilize by...
by ghgovernance | Oct 21, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Courtney M. Page, Young Voices Blogger Global Health Governance Research Intern, Council on Foreign Relations Two weeks ago, JPMorgan Chase and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF). The GHIF has been hailed...
by ghgovernance | Aug 29, 2013 | Asia, Climate Change, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Cecilia Zvosec, Young Voice Blogger MPH Candidate, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health MIA Candidate, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Twenty years of scientific research has warned of the impact greenhouse gas (GHG)...
by ghgovernance | Jul 19, 2013 | Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Anand Bhopal, Young Voices Blogger 5th Year Medical Student, University of Manchester The World Health Organisation was established in 1948 under the auspices of the United Nations. The post-war era was a time of great optimism and the visionary WHO constitution...
