A Public Health Perspective on Sierra Leone’s Monthly Cleaning Exercise

The newly elected president of Sierra Leone proclaimed an Executive Order instituting a monthly cleaning day in the country Let me start by giving thumbs-up to our newly elected president of the Republic of Sierra Leone , Julius Maada Bio . In 22 years, his campaign messages proved...

My Experience at the ISGlobal Master of Global Health Programme in Barcelona

Training & Education

In Sierra Leone, where I come from, most of the young graduates are unemployed. Graduates are left to aspire for two major opportunities: to get a job or to secure an international scholarship to pursue the studies of their dreams. Photo: Glòria Solsona I am able to better...

Hacking Hunger

Training & Education

[Written by Eleni Kavoura and Nicole Beatriz Michelen, students of the Master of Global Health ISGlobal-UB] Hackathons are all about developing creative solutions to a specific problem Hackathons are all about developing creative solutions to a specific problem by bringing...

Should Global Health be Considered a Security Issue?

Training & Education

Training & Education
Global Health is a Security Issue

Should Global Health be Considered a Security Issue? Is the gradual securitization of most health issues a positive or a negative development for effective global health governance? The outstanding words in th...

27 February 2018 by Jainaba Catherine Kargbo
Training & Education
Securitization Undermines Global Health Governance Efforts

Should global health be considered a security issue? Before addressing this question, I must begin by briefly trying to define what is meant by health securitization and by global health governance (GHG). Hea...

27 February 2018 by Brittany Bowman

Let’s Talk About Private and Public Health Care

Training & Education,Health Equity

The discussion on the role of private health sector in low and middle income countries is often met with mixed feelings. Different paradigms on whether health is a public good versus a business underlie the discussions. The private health sector is undergoing massive growth...

Kenya’s Struggling Health System

Training & Education

Public healthcare workers in Kenya often work in conditions where they are overloaded and under resourced Six months ago the 100-day Kenyan doctors’ strike came to an end after the doctors’ union and government agreed to sign a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA)...

Access to Health Innovation, Discussing Current and Future Solutions

Training & Education

What if you had to take the one medicine that keeps you alive and costs over $1000 a pill? Choosing your smartphone may be a matter of budget, newness, functionality or ‘what’s cool now’. You may have enough money to buy the latest smartphone with the latest...

Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health

Training & Education

Training & Education
Public-Private Partnership: A Useful Global Health Tool in 2017?

[Florence Gignac is student at the ISGlobal-UB Master of Global Health ]

29 March 2017 by Florence Gignac
Training & Education
Towards the Privatization of Global Health: Do we Need Coca-Cola to Fight Coca-Cola?

[José Cerezo is student at the ISGlobal-UB Master of Global Health ]

29 March 2017 by José Cerezo

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