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Don’t Forget to Do Your Humanitarian Home Work! (Please 😊)

Mother Earth and the future happiness of your fellow human beings depend on all you little cells of sustainable cultural transformation Disclaimer:Just to be clear: In this text, I am not suggesting that we do not need technology, tech innovation and global health aides traveling the world. However, it is the time for concerted action. It is not enough to support people in need but it is necessary to destroy those systemic, culturally rooted sources Read more

By Benjamin Kruft, ago
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“Covid 19 vaccine far from reality” says Medical experts in India

Medical experts in India say that the realization of a COVID-19 vaccine is unrealistic, as the shortest time it has taken to produce a vaccine was for mumps, which took nearly four years of research. On average, vaccines take 5 to 10 years to develop and in many cases it can take many more. They believe that the development of a vaccine to tackle a new virus, such as the novel Coronavirus in a short Read more

By Vinod Kumar Menon, ago

Why do we need physiotherapists in Global Health?

“Oh, you’re a physiotherapist? You know, my back has been killing me these last days – a massage would be awesome…?” The reaction I get when telling people about my profession is, unfortunately, very predictable. Yet, a physiotherapist is so much more than a masseuse. The fields we are trained for and work in include not just muscle relaxation and injury rehabilitation. Physiotherapy is a profession as variant as the patients that constitute our clientele Read more

By Anna Fuhrmann, ago

Migrants & the Covid-19 Response: A Look at the U.S.

Regardless of one’s opinion on migration, it is impossible to deny the influence that the foreign-born population has had on the United States (U.S.) The United States Census Bureau (USCB) estimated 44,728,721 foreign-born people are living in the US as of 2018, making up 13.7% of the total population and accounting for one-fifth of the world’s migrants. Migrants have always played an important role in U.S. economic success as well. As labor force participation rates Read more

By Sarah Williams, ago
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Should global health prioritize climate change over more proximate health concerns?

Climate change is a public health issue.  According to many studies conducted by researchers around the world, temperatures at the Earth’s surface are increasing, as well as in the atmosphere and oceans. It is said the global average temperature has increased by 1.1°C since the pre-industrial period, and by 0.2°C compared to 2011-2015. The main cause of this is greenhouse gas emission and the increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Consequently, climate change is altering Read more

By Anna Garcia, ago
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Prison Health is Public Health

As the world scrambles to thwart off the effects of COVID-19, life in social isolation and under physical distancing has left us trying to understand this new normal. Throughout this time, feelings of despair, confusion and grief have become daily and overbearing occurrences for much of the world’s population. Every country’s response has been different but one thing is certain; our mental health, to varying degrees, has collectively been challenged. Governments and institutions throughout the Read more

By Kira Grachev, ago

World refugee day – An Interview with Anila Noor

In honor of World Refugee Day, Anila Noor joined us for an interview about her experience as a refugee and work as a Gender Migration Policy Expert. We don’t have to look far to find strong, inspiring women around us, but what stands out the most about Anila is her story. Anila says she has been a feminist since the day she was born. She continued to foster those values all throughout her early life Read more

By Sarah Williams, ago
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A Culture of Creative Volunteering in Global Health – Contemplating Modern Altruism

For anyone using Facebook, Instagram or other Social Media: have you ever been bothered by ads popping up that completely match your interests? This is called targeted advertising and is based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. I don’t want to demonize it. It is actually quite fascinating. As with many things in the world, you don’t make them better by devaluing and wildly criticizing them. However, understanding them and providing ideas about how to Read more

By Cornelius Benecke, ago

Biological Manifestations of Social Maladies: Lupus in the United States

What determines health and causes disease? From ancient times to the 21st century, the determinants of health have morphed and shifted along with our understanding of disease etiology – from Hippocratic principles and miasmatic forces, to germ theory and hereditary factors such as genetics and epigenetics. However, in modern medicine and public health, we have come full circle to incorporate ancient and modern paradigms.

By Ori Solomon, ago

Obstetric Fistula: The Invisible Women

Credits: WHO/P. Virot “Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference… It is a choice: whether or not to support a woman, whether or not to protect her, whether or not to defend her rights” Dr. Denis Mukwege Each year between 50,000 and 100,000 women and girls worldwide are affected by obstetric fistula, resulting in an estimated 2-3 million women currently living with the condition. Fistula presents a burden in nearly 60 countries, almost exclusively in Read more

By Sarah Williams, ago