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Shining a light on developing world’s biggest killer: non-communicable diseases
This week, we hand the blog over to guest-writer Sunanda Creagh of The Conversation who is introducing you to an initiative co-founded by TGH blogger Dr Alessandro Demaio. Launched this week! They...
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T-Minus four days to TEDMED.
Less than a 7 days to go, next week is TEDMED 2013. The conference and convening synonymous with innovation, inspiration and illumination (light-bulb moments), it’s promising to be a packed program of...
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Day 2 @ TEDMED 2013, Washington D.C. #LiveUpdate.
There is a lot of discussion about data here at TEDMED 2013, and this is no great surprise. Big data, small data, open data, crowdsourced data – this is the information backbone of science and the key...
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Inspiration and innovation. #TEDMED 2013 comes to a close.
Well TEDMED has come to a close for this year, but not before another full and challenging day. Soon, a smorgasbord of talks and highlights will be up online for all to feast on. Before that happens,...
View ArticleTEDMEDlive at London’s Imperial College – Part One
Following our live posts from TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC, this week we cross the Atlantic and hand the reigns of PLOS TGH over to Alex from the team at TEDMEDlive – Imperial College London. TEDMED...
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TEDMEDLive at London’s Imperial College – Part Two
Following our live posts from TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC, this week we cross the Atlantic and hand the reigns of PLOS TGH over to Alex from the team at TEDMEDLive – Imperial College. TEDMEDLive...
View ArticleReconnecting with Food. Essential for our health.
To put it plainly, have we lost our connection with food? Understanding where food comes from, how it’s produced and where it has been between farm and plate is becoming a rare quality. Almost a...
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Taking care of yourself is not very manly – but it should be!
It is a sad fact that in modern day society, stigmas are still rife. Varied in nature, subject and conspicuousness they are still very real and very alive. What is cool, what is not. Don’t wear this,...
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Lend your voice to NCDs for a chance to join NCDFREE in Vienna
Win a trip to Vienna to join NCDFREE at the WHO Ministerial Meeting on Non-Communicable Disease. (click on above to watch) NCDFREE is a global social movement that aims to bring societal and...
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Mongolia: a nation at a crossroads, with much to look forward to
A few weeks back, at the World Health Assembly, World Bank President Dr Jim Kim said the world is at a crossroads when it comes to health. A defining moment in history, from which our future...
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Big Soda – do you think we’re all stupid?
In life, the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is usually very blurred. When it comes to food, trying to decide whether something is ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’, is even harder. Red meat, for example, is...
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A crowdsourced voice for the Ministers of Europe
Over the past months, as part of a global team of young people, we have been developing new ways to bring attention to the world’s leading cause of mortality and disability. NCDs, or non-communicable...
View ArticleReflections on the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion (8GCHP),...
Last week I shared my key lessons and highlights of some sessions from the conference. This week’s blog aims to reflect upon some further interesting aspects of the conference. Diversity of...
View ArticleRegulation – big brother, or just good governance?
Dr Fiona Lander is a medical doctor and law graduate based in Melbourne, Australia. In this, her first post for TGH, she explores the concepts around effective public health regulation, including the...
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A changing climate & shifting epidemiology: shared risks and opportunities
I might be a doctor, but actually I wasn’t always medically-focused. In fact, in my final year of High School, I was captain for the environment. A young college leader, I was passionate about the...
View Article#GlobalHealth: an open letter to the Healthcare Students of the World.
This week, an open letter to the healthcare and public health students of the world – written by Harvard Fellow Dr Alessandro Demaio, for the 2013 Global Health Conference of the Australian Medical...
View ArticleHealth policy: nanny state or catalyst for change?
This week on TGH – regular blogger and NCDFREE change-maker Jo Jewell of the World Cancer Research Fund talks about health policy and its role in Global Health. It has become abundantly clear over the...
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Known Knowns and Unknowns of U.S. Drug Pricing
0000-0002-8715-2896 By Joshua P. Cohen Research Associate Professor, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Full bio below this post) Media scrutiny of high drug costs In the U.S. spending...
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Festive fiscal measures
0000-0002-8715-2896 Dr Luke Allen is a physician and global health policy researcher at the British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention. As the...
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More people, more time, better data – what we need to ‘treat-all’ with HIV
0000-0002-8715-2896 On World AIDS Day 2015 and as the 18th International Conferences on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) is in full swing, Helen Bygrave discusses the implications of the recently...
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