India has been transitioning from rural to quasi-urban due to rapid urbanization over the last two decades and is expected to continue in the coming years. It is estimated that 43.2% of India’s population, i.e., 675 million people, will reside in Urban conglomerates by 2035 (UN-Habitat 2022). While urbanization has provided economic growth and […]
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No visa, No worries! Making global health conferences accessible for all
Imagine you are attending a panel held by the largest conference in your field and none of the panelists show up. This was the scene at AIDS 2022, a conference held in Montreal this past July, by the biggest AIDS advocacy organization – the International AIDS Society (IAS). The scene was captured in a […]
Should Global Health institutions apply what they research, teach and advise on?
Essential workers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) won a brave campaign to be insourced, after keeping the School safe throughout the pandemic. It will be effective on 01 August 2022. Since the insourcing announcement was made, LSHTM has been reticent to negotiate their salary with the workers and to […]
Response to open letter on insourcing at LSHTM
This is a response to the ‘Open letter to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’ posted on the BMJ Global Health Blog on 11 July 2022. We are surprised and disappointed that members of the LSHTM community have put their names to a publication without first checking the factual accuracy and validity […]
Open letter to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The following is an open letter calling the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s (LSHTM) Senior Management to meet essential workers’ demands of fair treatment and pay, and to ask for the immediate annulation of disciplinary sanctions faced by some workers engaged in union activities and campaigns. Dear Professor Liam Smeeth, and Senior […]
The thin line between lobbying and corruption: health advocacy
What is corruption? What image comes to mind when you see the word corruption? I was born and raised in Nigeria and I associate corruption with Ghana must go bags, agbada, bullion vans, and animals swallowing money before vanishing. Lobbying never comes to mind. Lobbying conjures images of placards, campaigns for social issues and […]
For good “Global Health”, words matter
Words inspire us. They shape our culture. They have the power to divide us. When using alternative words to describe something it is not, we either promote or demote its importance. And thus, we inflate or deflate its actual power or value; sometimes intentionally, other times not. Fortunately, a group of leading scholars in […]
Charting the rise of Family MUAC: equipping families across the world with the tools to identify wasting at home
Globally, wasting treatment services admit over 5 million children on a yearly basis, providing lifesaving therapeutic treatment to these high-risk children. Yet only one third of children with wasting receive treatment. Limited geographic coverage means that treatment is just not available in many places. Scaling-up services within countries is essential to ensure that treatment […]
Reflexivity in quantitative research – A Master of Global Health class perspective
“Are numbers in quantitative research objective?” Our 2021-2022 Masters of Global Health class at Karolinska Institutet reflected during an in-class discussion on the role of reflexivity in quantitative research. The question was raised after learning about the concept in our qualitative research lectures. While reflexivity was used as a quality measurement in qualitative research, […]
Two cases of SARS: Fighting police brutality and COVID-19 in Nigeria
Over the last three weeks, young people have taken to the streets across the country, in the middle of a pandemic, to protest against police brutality in Nigeria. In some instances, the peaceful protestors have been met with more violence and to one of the darkest days in modern history in Nigeria now infamously […]