Aging Well: Who Will Be There to Walk beside You?
This year’s World Health Day, celebrated on April 7, will focus on aging and health. The older I get, the better I understand that old truism: ‘old age is not for wimps.’
Laurie Garrett at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy: Calling for a Major Change in Global Health
A legendary figure of global health journalism, Laurie Garrett challenged a university audience with her insightful, incisive, and energizing lecture on the future of global health.
Working Differently: An Invitation from Pape Gaye to SwitchPoint
It is fundamental that international NGOs and development practitioners start to work differently, and that is what SwitchPoint is all about.
Serious Optimism: A Conversation with Constance Newman about Connecting Girls to School, and Women to the Paid Health Workforce
Barriers for girls are preventing countries from producing, hiring, and retaining the health workers they need.
What USAID’s New Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy Means for Connecting Girls and Inspiring Futures in Health
Leading up to this year’s International Women’s Day, the U.S. Agency for International Development introduced a new policy to help women and girls participate fully in and benefit from development.
Medicine as a Weapon in Syria and Beyond
A recent editorial in The Lancet issued a dire warning to the international medical community: medicine is a weapon of war in Syria. It is just the latest in a series of reportsfrom across the Middle East on how medical care and medical professionals and facilities are being used to inflict politically-motivated violence.
mHealth Pilots Show Promise, on the Verge of Something Bigger
A mHealth report from Advanced Development for Africa offers recommendations for taking mHealth programs to scale based on nine case studies.
Accommodating—and Creatively Embracing—Technology
Last week, the New York Times published “As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows,” which offers a critical look at the place of mobile technology and computers in the hospital.
