Post COVID-19: How can countries in the South work together to strengthen health systems around reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health Wednesday, 24 June 2020 | 9:00 - 10:30 EST It has been noted that maintaining the...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that everyone has access to good quality healthcare without facing financial hardship as a result of benefitting from these services. Nouria Brikci, a Senior Consultant for Oxford...
There is sound evidence that investing in improving the nutritional well-being of populations is one of the most cost-effective economic investments. Yet nutrition requires the attention of multiple sectors to bring about lasting...
Sarah Hawkes is a Professor of Global Public Health at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. Sally Theobald is Chair in Social Science and International Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and part of the ReBUILD...
The Birth Day Prize is a joint initiative between the EC, the Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers programme. Cash prizes will be awarded to up to three innovators for identifying and implementing the most effective solutions to...
Joliet, 30, is a Barangay Health Worker from Sinuda village ( barangay) in the province of Bukidnon in the southern part of The Philippines. She is also one of the indigenous peoples (IPs) living in the area and a member of the...
“Most of the projects are quite successful because malaria research has come a long-way,” explains Inmaculada Penas Jimenez. She is a Scientific Officer working to fight infections diseases and global epidemics. Employed by the...
On 27 January the Novartis Malaria Initiative invited development practitioners to an event at the European Parliament to discuss eradicating malaria through innovation. You can watch the event in the video below, a copy of the...
“I think that the Ebola virus is something that has touched a nerve in the collective consciousness about everybody’s own deep seated individual fears about sickness and about infection and that has led to the reactions that we’ve...
The recent Ebola virus outbreak has taken the world by surprise. Infecting over 17000 people, and resulting in a reported 6070 deaths to date*, this outbreak has raised several questions. Were we prepared enough to deal with such...
