A Hippocratic Oath for Humanitarians
My former professor Bill Bicknell (happy guy in the photo) told us to always remember the melon lady. He challenged each student who aspired to work in global health to […]
Category Archives: Health Systems
Born Too Soon: Landmark report & new data on global pre-term births
Each year, 15 million babies around the world are born prematurely, and 1 million of those die as a result of their preterm birth New findings highlight how even in […]
“If you give a country a dollar…”: Subadditionality in Global Health Financing
Two themes in global health programming make the question of how countries change their spending on health in response to receiving donor funding (substitutability or subadditionality*, if you’re being fancy […]
Community Health Workers: Champions in the Fight against Child Pneumonia
While the social media sphere has been abuzz with updates and tweets about 11/11/11 – and rightly so, given that it’s Veteran’s Day – the global health community has its […]
#socialgood day 2: Community Health Works
Today was star-studded. They brought out the big guns, from Serena Williams to Lance Armstrong to Mandy Moore to Jeff Sachs (perhaps only a celebrity to wonky aid types like […]
For immediate action: international affairs funding
If you believe the cuts being made to the international affairs budget are shortsighted like many of us who work in international affairs, please consider printing, signing, and mailing this […]
To everyone advocating to cut the US international affairs budget…
My other blog activities
I’ve been neglecting my personal blog over the past couple months for two main reasons: 1. My schedule has been nothing less than crazy between work with One Home Many […]
Investing in Opportunity
In the opening presentation at the CORE Group’s spring meeting, one of the interesting findings from the research that went into One Illness Away was how common it was for […]
Seven key ideas from GHME
As I listened through three days of information-dense sessions at the GHME conference in Seattle, a few major themes stuck with me. My short list of seven key takeaways, some […]
