Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2015
Mobile tech. Global health security. Cancer. We’ve got our eyes on 10 topics that will shape 2015 for many of us—especially the health workforce.
Fear, Trust, and Attacks on Ebola Workers
To West Africans who are emerging from decades of brutal wars, health workers in hazmat suits can easily appear threatening. The resulting attacks put everyone at risk.
Let’s Bring Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Out of the Shadows in Mali
A first-of-its-kind training for health workers is sparking some uncommon—and sometimes heated—conversations in Bamako.
Six Steps on the Long Road to Gender Equality
What can we do to reduce discrimination and violence against women? And how can we make change last for generations to come? Madhuri Narayanan has some ideas.
Syria: In a Doctor's Words
For Dr. Qasem al Zein, the revolution began with a feeling of hope.
Nine Polio Workers Dead in Nigeria: How Can We Move beyond Condemnation to Actions that Protect Health Workers?
First Pakistan, now Nigeria. Today, nine female health workers were slain while working on a polio eradication campaign.
The Ongoing Fight for Safety, Equality, and Health
At IntraHealth, our work of empowering health workers around the world intersects with gender violence more often than you might think.
The Power of Proverbs?
Violence against women is portrayed as normal and even desirable in sayings from around the world. Here are just a few.
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.
