March 31, 2018
Burundi. Photo by Kristy Carlson | longmilescoffeeproject.com
At the end of every month, we highlight key readings—and other information sources such as podcasts and videos—that during the month have provided us with new knowledge about efforts to improve access to health technologies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Though we are always eager to […]
A current trend in global health research papers and commentaries is for authors to conclude with a call for a “multisectoral approach.” These calls have increased in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals with its emphasis on policy coherence and collaboration across sectors for reaching national and global targets.
Indeed, many of the determinants of […]
February 28, 2018
A nurse in Burundi using a pregnancy wheel. Photo by Kristy Carlson | longmilescoffeeproject.com
At the end of every month, we highlight key readings—and other information sources such as podcasts and videos—that during the month have provided us with new knowledge about efforts to improve access to health technologies in low- and middle-income countries […]
The BBC recently featured the “backpack midwife”— Margaret, a community health worker in Kenya who carries a backpack full of technologies that support the provision of health care within communities, particularly for women and children. Margaret makes home visits twice per week, in an area north of Nairobi with approximately 120 households. Though she says […]
In A History of Global Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), historian Randall M. Packard examines why initiatives to prioritize and implement comprehensive approaches to health, as opposed to narrow technological ones, have failed to be sustained over time. This book centers on a tension that most of us working in global health have long […]
All you have to do is walk into a primary health center or health post and eyeball the record-keeping and you know that health statistics in Africa need serious “enhancement.” On September 25, 2015, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data was launched—the partnership is a multi-stakeholder group seeking to harness the power of data […]
Years ago, I was engaged in my first study of innovation and access, working with the Harvard School of Public Health on a case study of the Mectizan Donation Program (MDP). MDP is a groundbreaking donation program established by Merck and partners to get ivermectin for the treatment of onchocerciasis out to the people who […]
