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Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges for the Post-2015 Development Era
This article is being cross-listed with the Harvard graduate student publication Signal to Noise, Special Edition on Infectious Disease. Health equity is based on the idea that all lives, anywhere in...
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WHO will lead and who will pay? The World Health Organization, Ebola and the...
Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General addresses the UN during the 67th World Health Assembly, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Monday 19 May 2014. Photo by Violaine Martin By Andreas Vilhelmsson When the...
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LAMP Diagnostics: The key to malaria elimination?
A medical researcher with the U.S. Army tests a patient for malaria in Kisumu, Kenya. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Africa. By Patrick McCreesh Malaria elimination is possible within a generation....
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Legionnaire’s in 2015: Cutting Edge Research Clashing with Public Health...
By Meredith Wright In 1976, the American Legion, a veterans group still active today, met in Philadelphia, PA for a three-day convention. Shortly after the convention ended many of the Legionnaires...
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9-2-15 PLOS Science Wednesday AMA Preview: River blindness programs improve...
A man, 30-40 years old, blind due to onchocerciasis. Photo by Pak Sang Lee, originally published in: Revue de Santé Oculaire Communautaire Vol. 1 No. 1 2004. Photo courtesy of Flickr. By Sara Kassabian...
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10-28-2015 Global Health AMA Preview: Improving Water, Sanitation, and...
The global health community has seen substantial reductions in deaths from “the big three” infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; as well as an almost 50% reduction in under-five...
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Wake up and smell the coffee: Climate change and coffee production
Formerly known as the “devil’s drink,” coffee is increasingly being viewed as an “elixir of life”. Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to read about news of coffee intake in different media outlets...
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Ebola Remembered: A report from this year’s American Society of Tropical...
The annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), held this year in Philadelphia from October 25 through 29, gathers the global leaders in tropical medicine to...
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Funding by Crisis: Understanding the Zika Virus Funding Debate
In February 2016, President Obama petitioned Congress for the $1.9 billion dollars the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says are required to combat Zika virus. Amid warnings that the...
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“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Soda tax, public health and...
0000-0002-6635-8182For those of you who missed it, the Speaking of Medicine ran in July a four week special in relation to the PLOS Medicine Special Issue on Preventing Diabetes, which included...
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Kofi Annan 1938-2018: a guiding force for good and a role model for global...
0000-0002-6635-8182As I have written elsewhere, inspiring people have the ability to change the course and intensity of your research area, in my case global health. I was therefore saddened to hear...
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