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Global Health’s Latest Offspring: “Global Surgery”
Outside Hôpital St. Thérèse (Hinche, Haiti) “Global surgery” is a relatively new addition to its parent field of global health. Although the notion of surgeons from the industrialized world sharing...
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Strange Bedmates: Global Health and Quality Improvement
For those of you familiar with my background and specific research interests in global health and quality improvement, it should be no surprise that I routinely get asked how do I connect two very...
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What to do about the worldwide healthcare workforce shortage?
A community health worker is seen here registering patients at a rural health fair outside Thomonde, Haiti. Community health workers are critical at serving "last mile" healthcare needs and are...
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FoetoH – Good science. Good medicine?
I recently came across FoetoH, a fetal heart rate monitoring device that has been developed at the University of Oxford. Unlike other forms of fetal health monitors, FoetoH is designed to be used by...
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Micronutrient powders as a sustainable solution for child malnutrition
The World Health Organization rates malnutrition as the foremost threat to global public health. Each year, over six million children die of starvation, and more than one billion people suffer from...
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Is Kenya’s healthcare sector ready for a take-off?
Last month had me traveling around the world courtesy of Saïd Business School’s capstone Strategic Consulting Project and our multinational corporate partner who is currently looking to become more...
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When “go-local” doesn’t work: sanitary napkins in sub-Saharan Africa
7 years ago, an enterprising Harvard student, Elizabeth Scharpf, began a project to produce sanitary napkins using local workers and local materials in sub-Saharan Africa. Although difficult to...
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Training medical students through international electives
A number of recent academic studies have shown that global health experiences are becoming more essential in the eyes of medical trainees. One particular study suggested that the vast majority of...
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Increasing pharmaceutical market penetration in the developing world through...
Just how many “me too” cholesterol-lowering agents do we really need? (Photo Courtesy: The Daily Mail) The pharmaceutical industry’s fundamental business model has become increasingly less attractive...
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What to do about the worldwide healthcare workforce shortage?
A community health worker is seen here registering patients at a rural health fair outside Thomonde, Haiti. Community health workers are critical at serving "last mile" healthcare needs and are...
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Training medical students through international electives
A number of recent academic studies have shown that global health experiences are becoming more essential in the eyes of medical trainees. One particular study suggested that the vast majority of...
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