Huffington Post: 289,000 Reasons Why Health Workers Count for Mothers Pape Amadou Gaye, president and CEO of IntraHealth International “…[M]idwives, nurses, doctors, and other health workers can’t do their jobs unless they’re working within a functioning health system — one that ensures everyone has access to high-quality care. … For…

The Lancet: Slowly and steadily, Somaliland builds its health system “…Thanks to remittances from Somalilanders abroad and foreign aid, much of the capital Hargeisa has been rebuilt and the rubble removed while the trappings of statehood, including health services, are slowly emerging. But the challenges remain steep in a region…

Wall Street Journal: Ebola’s Long Shadow: West Africa Struggles to Rebuild Its Ravaged Health Care System “…Now, as [Ebola] ebbs, the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea — racked for years by civil wars, coups, and unrest — are joining forces to heal from the crisis. Working with foreign…

Devex: The contribution of health partnerships in universal health coverage Andy Haines, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and chair of the THET Board of Trustees “…As we seek to reach universal health coverage by 2030, the development community must focus on the following key achievements.…

The Guardian: Airstrike on MSF-backed Aleppo hospital kills patients and doctors “A Syrian hospital backed by Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo, killing patients and doctors including one of the last pediatricians remaining in the rebel-held…

The Lancet: No health workforce, no global health security Editorial Board “…[W]hat is the most important determinant of individual health security? In one word, people. Or, more programmatically, skilled health professionals. … Global health security depends on many factors — robust disease surveillance systems, reliable health information, prevention, diagnostic, and…

Devex: The importance of partnerships in humanitarian response Momodu L. Kargbo, Sierra Leone’s minister of finance and economic development “…Building partnerships with the private sector and development organizations is key for us to succeed [in delivering digital payments to health care workers (HCWs) in emergency response situations]. … It is…

Humanosphere: Tackling neonatal hypothermia in Uganda and Kenya Jennifer Zhu, a health policy analyst and Global Health Corps fellow, discusses a new technology called Embrace Baby Wrap, a low-cost baby warmer designed by Stanford University graduate students as an intervention for neonatal hypothermia, “one of the leading contributors to neonatal…

Devex: Lessons learned: Putting innovative health technology in the hands of the user Aba Asibon, project manager with Rice University’s Institute for Global Health Technologies, also known as Rice 360˚ “…Simple but innovative medical technologies … have the potential to address some of the developing world’s biggest public health problems.…

Washington Post: My son was born in our car. He was still safer than if he’d been born in 21 other countries. Mark Leon Goldberg, editor of U.N. Dispatch and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast “…In the United States, 99 percent of all births happen in some form of…