Training & Education This year about 50 countries of the African Union signed the historic Africa Convention Free Trade Area This year about 50 countries of the African Union signed the historic Africa Convention Free Trade Area agreement that paves the way for free movement of goods and services...
Training & Education 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...
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...
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 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...
Training & Education 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...
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...
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)...
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...
