by Robert A. LeVine Global health research has long faced a paradox: That the school attainment of mothers is associated – strongly, independently and in most less-developed countries – with reduced child mortality and other beneficial health outcomes, but no consensus has emerged about why or how this happens. A new book from our Project [...]
The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble in 2007 sent the global economy into a decline, eliciting budget cuts in public spending and significant decreases in voluntary contributions, particularly in the field of health. Although spending to improve health in the developing world has increased throughout the recession, the growth rate for this spending has [...]
By Shaira Bhanji ’14, Global Health Finance Columnist Pharmaceutical companies, or what critics call “big pharma,” are often condemned for charging prices above marginal cost and price discriminating between different countries (calculating each country’s ability to pay). These practices lie at the heart of feuds such as compulsory licensing, a strategy employed by countries to [...]
By Katherine Record, JD, MA Access to reproductive healthcare is an inflammatory subject matter, often discussed in ideological rather than medical terms. Its attachment to sexuality and social norms distracts the public, legislators, and the judiciary from the de facto result of confounding morality with medicine. In other words, notions of virtue are relevant to [...]
By Rachel Sapire The continued growth of coal mining has left communities with pervasive and irreparable damage. Until recently, however, the effects of coal on human health have been largely ignored and mining has continued without many appeals for improvement. In both the United States and China, industrial achievements have created a legacy of pollution [...]
By Sarah McCuskee Immigrant populations, including the Boston Haitian community, face staggering disparities in health. Structural issues are largely at fault—but more ambiguous “cultural” factors are often blamed as well. These factors—things like language and “health beliefs”—may be important: in 1970, Philip Tumulty wrote “what the scalpel is to the surgeon, words are to the [...]
by Jacqueline Sherris, PhD and Jeffrey Bernson, MPH, MPA In Seattle we often are fortunate enough to have access to a good health clinic or physician, where we can go for regular check-ups and screening tests, get necessary immunizations, address our reproductive health needs, get assessed and treated for many illnesses or injuries, and obtain referrals [...]
by Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD and Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD Non-communicable and chronic diseases (NCDs) are on the rise throughout the world, but they pose an especially great challenge in low and middle income countries (LMIC). With limited resources for healthcare and prevention, these regions, still affected by a high burden of infectious diseases, are [...]
By Carlos de Mestral While I was having lunch in Quincy dining hall last week with my friend Helen, we both commented that our quinoa meal tasted delicious. I mentioned how happy it made me that such a nutritional meal actually was so pleasing to the palate. Upon agreeing with me, Helen told me something [...]
By Nigel Deen In April 2010, the government of Sierra Leone declared that all healthcare services for pregnant and lactating women, and young children be free of charge, in response to the high maternal and infant mortality rate. The government of Sierra Leone launched the Health Sector Strategic Plan 2010-2015 to ensure successful implementation of [...]
Interviewed by Ava Carter Biosketch Peter Piot, MD, PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. In 2009-2010 he was the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College, London. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the [...]
Interviewed by Sheila Ojeaburu Biosketch Elizabeth H. Bradley, MBA, PhD is faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale, professor of public health and director of Global Health Initiatives at the Yale University School of Public Health. As a recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, [...]
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