Dr. Pai discusses the prestigious Stop TB Kochon Prize for 2017, which was awarded to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The award serves to recognize the decades of ground-breaking research conducted by Indians, and the massive DOTS scale-up effort that has helped raise India’s ambition and garner political commitment.
Read MoreIn this piece, Raymond Downing discusses his experience standing in the shoes of a recipient of donor funding.
Read MoreRaymond Downing shares his reflections on global health, after coming back to a conference on the subject after 16 years in the field.
Read MoreNatasha Caminsky shares her experience at the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Read MoreYassen Tcholakov writes about the opportunity for the global health community to view the Paris Agreement as one of the most important public health treaties of the 21st Century.
Read MoreClaire Styffe discusses her experience working at a needle exchange and the stigmas attached to people using these services.
Read MoreStephannie Covarrubias discusses the impact of the PROSPERA program in Mexico on bettering health outcomes among the country's indigenous populations.
Read MoreIn clinical research, there is widespread acceptance that surrogate endpoints might not translate into long-term benefits (e.g. lives saved). But in global health, we are often stunned when improvements in surrogate endpoints do not save lives. We do this, despite knowing that silver bullets don’t work in global health.
Read MoreJuan Pimentel discusses how an unexpected encounter with an indigenous traditional healer in Colombia introduced him to the importance of cultural safety in medical education.
Read MoreAshley Tseng talks about her trip to the 4th Annual Global Health Security Agenda Ministerial Meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
Read MoreMadlen Nash and Vaidehi Nafade argue that to eliminate TB, we need better diagnostics, better treatments, and better vaccines. All of this requires better research and more investments in R&D.
Read MoreIn this article, Samantha Zielinski and Kartik Karkala revisit the fallout of Dieselgate and its implications for global health.
Read MoreBrittany Myhre shares a story from her experience in India that forever changed her future.
Read MoreIn this article, Vaidehi Nafade reflects on the troubling revival of debates on birth control.
Read MoreZahra Kamal discusses her time in Montrouis, Haiti, at the Kay Mackenson clinic, which focuses on early detection, management, education, and prevention of acute and chronic complications of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney disorders, and juvenile arthritis.
Read MoreHarry Kim discusses his four-week mission to Iqaluit and Kuujjuaq to join a research project involving the investigation of enteric infections among young children in the Arctic.
Read MoreChristopher Dainton discusses the trade-offs between performing more direct patient care on volunteer trips and obtaining a healthy dose of cultural learning.
Read MoreDr. Madhukar Pai reflects on what it means for immigrant scientists to give back to their homelands. Speaking about his own experience, he shares lessons that may be applicable to immigrant scientists from other countries.
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